Four Lambeth delftware dishes c.1740-50

Four Lambeth delftware dishes c.1740-50, probably William Griffith, two plates in different sizes, and two soup bowls, one with a scallop-edged rim, all painted in blue with a Chinese boy carrying a long stick and turning his head to look over one shoulder, beneath tall flowering plants, reserved on a powdered blue ground with flower sprays in imitation of bianco-sopra-bianco, some damages, 30.3cm max. (4)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 2nd March 1965, lot 109 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner; and Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 79 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor.

Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware, p.146 for a discussion of this type of decoration, sherds of which have been excavated in Lambeth.