A delftware flower bowl c.1700-20

A delftware flower bowl c.1700-20, of circular form, painted in blue with insects in flight around flowering plants, the fixed domed cover pierced with an arrangement of ten small holes around a central aperture with raised rim, detailed in blue with stylized floral motifs, blue 3 mark to the underside, and a delftware colander bowl, the exterior painted with flowering plants before an ornamental fence, the concave fixed cover pierced with three concentric bands of holes, damages, 22.5cm max. (2)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 15th May 1979, lot 30, formerly in the Moorwood Collection; and Quinneys Ltd, Chester, c.1955.