Sola Nobilitas Virtus a Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian wall plate by William S Mycock

Sola Nobilitas Virtus a Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian wall plate by William S Mycock, dated 1928, shape no. 3218, painted to the well with a heraldic Knight's helmet and scrolling foliage and Latin inscription (virtue alone is true nobility) to the rim in gilt lustre on a red ground, the reverse with scroll border on lime-green ground impressed and painted marks, painted artist cipher and date mark, 29cm. diam.

Provenance

The Bill Coles Collection

British Art Pottery, Woolley and Wallis Auctioneer's, 30th November 2011 lot 169

Private collection.