Richard Joyce for Pilkington, a Royal Lancastrian relief moulded lustre Valkyrie plaque, 1926, the central iridescent copper image of a female warrior on horseback, within a turquoise and rouge flambe mottled brim of raised swirling clouds, incised, impressed and painted marks, 40cm diameter Provenance: Richard Dennis Pilkington's Pottery exhibition 1980, number 178; illustrated in Cross, A J, 1980, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery, p.62, pl.91

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