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Boat-shaped centre dish, greyish paste, glaze shrinking back at foot rim; standing on a stepped spreading oval foot, fluted sides and waved rim; the centre painted with a distant polychrome view of Hafod (house to left, road and building to right) on its lawns, wooded hills in the background, rocks, trees and bushes in foreground, all in an oval frame comprising a blue line edged with gold and gilt sprays, rim with pendant leaves in gilt between lines, below blue band and gilt dentil edge

This dish is from a dessert service commissioned from the Derby factory early in 1787 by the Cardiganshire landowner Thomas Johnes (1748-1816). Each of the thirty-seven pieces was decorated with a different view of Johnes's gothic mansion at Hafod and the picturesque landscape he was creating around it.