{Photo taken outdoors with no flash.  More photos below.}

This is a wonderful octogonal ashtray dish from the 1950s-1970s featuring the Freesia re-designed by Walter Moorcroft of the famous Moorcroft Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent, England, founded by his father, William Moorcroft in the early 1900s.
 

Photo from our visit to Moocroft Pottery  in 2006

The center of the dish features the tubelined (slipstreamed) freesia flower with its delicate red-orange, green, and brown coloring on a "light flambe" (dark reddish) glaze background (for "freesia" see p. 149 of Moorcroft, Revised Edition 1897-1993 by Paul Atterbury.)

The bottom of the dish is impress-marked "Moorcroft Made in England" .

{Photo taken indoors on black granite but with no flash.}


{Photo taken outdoors with no flash.}

Condition.  The ashtray dish is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or restorations. The ashtray appears to have rarely, if ever, been used.  There is no tobacco odor whatsoever.

Sold by DesertGold, 2012, $72