Staffordshire, creamware, punch bowl. printed in black with a cricket match, inscribed 'Grand Cricket MAtch Played in Lord's Ground MAry-Le-Bone June 20 and Following Day Between the Earls of Winchelsea and Darnley for 1,000 Guineas' Reverse with shepherd and shepherdess, the interior with 'The Birks of Invermay' prints signed Fletcher & Co Shelton. Three transfer prints to exterior, one to inner bowl and black band around interior rim. Scenes include cricket in Dorset Fields; shepherd and shepherdess; coursing scene with hare; a landscape featuring Scottish couple beneath a tree and lyrics to the song 'The Birks of Invermay', with floral swag. Under cricket scene and ‘Invermay’ maker’s name Fletcher & Co., Shelton. The Birks of Invermay is included in ‘Skillern’s compleat collection of 204 reels and country dances’ published in 1789 Design for Invermay scene seems to be taken from a mezzotint print of 1786 published by Robert Sayer, copy in the British Museum