A very rare Liverpool (William Reid) trencher salt, circa 1756-61 Of quatrelobed, waisted form, with gadrooned rim and footrim, painted in blue with the tower and fir tree pattern, a simple line and loop border below the rim and a flying insect in the centre of the shallow bowl, 9.5cm wide Footnotes: Provenance Davies Collection Exhibited by Roderick Jellicoe, 1993 Liverpool Exhibition and at Phillips, 1997 Liverpool Exhibition. This is one of two Reid trencher salts, both illustrated (as Chaffers) by Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain of the 18th Century (1997), fig.27. Maurice Hillis illustrates the second example in Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.73, fig.3.149. Interestingly, among his other mercantile endeavours William Reid was involved in the export of salt from Cheshire. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing