This 7 x 5 inch plaque came about in unusual circumstances. Terry received a phone call from an elderly lady who was an admirer of his fox enamels. Her grandfather had carried out one of the first field studies on foxes, she had foxes that visited her garden and visited an animal sanctuary that cared for injured foxes. She was recently out of hospital after a major operation and wondered if Terry could paint her something with foxes on china to boost her spirits a little.

Being the kind man he is, Terry wanted to help and suggested a small plaque with a moonlit scene. As he had a lot of other pieces he wanted to get on with he didn't want to make this a normal edition of ten pieces and in the end only painted two. To keep the design work simple he used the same concept of moonlit foxes in a birch woodland as he had used on his Foxes bowl for Moorcroft Enamels (as self-employed artists Elliot's artists retain the copyright on their designs themselves).

Framed in a gold moulding he duly sent the plaque to the lady, who was highly delighted with it. It is not difficult to see why!