Very Rare 18th Century Derby Porcelain Potting / Flower Pot & Stand c.1760

An extremely rare Derby porcelain flower / plant pot with its original stand saucer dish. Tapered sides with flared rim and central drainage hole in the base. The pot is painted with fancy birds in landscapes in polychrome enamels with scattered bugs and butterflies and flocks of tiny birds in the skies. The stand is painted with butterflies. Both with red-brown enamel rims. c.1760-1765. Reference: Derby is known to have produced these pots and stands but they would not have been produced in large quantities and understandably very few have survived and they are not at all well documented. See Derby Porcelain The Golden Years by Rice, pages 48-49, 60 - inventories from the period of order lists document a couple of items which could be this type of flower pot: "potting pots" and "polyanthus pots", and Appendix 4, page 206, documents pots and stands matching this example in shape and size recorded in sales at Christie's in 1982.