Four Irish delftware plates c.1750

Four Irish delftware plates c.1750, painted in blue after a Chinese design, each with two fallow deer beside flowering bushes and tall pine trees, the rims with a wide Fitzhugh border, numeral 12 marks to the undersides, some chipping, 23.6cm. (4)

Cf. Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, pp.92-3, for a discussion of this pattern and its derivation from the Chinese.