Two delftware plates and a saucer dish c.1750

Two delftware plates and a saucer dish c.1750, one plate and the dish probably London, painted to the wells in a bold polychrome palette with Oriental flower sprays and a two-storey pagoda, the rims with flying insects and flower sprays detailed in yellow on a powdered manganese ground, the other plate Bristol or Wincanton, unusually painted in blue with birds perched on and beneath bamboo within a six-petalled flowerhead panel, the rim with four blue fish on a powdered manganese ground, a riveted crack to the latter, 22.6cm max. (3)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Christie's, 2nd June 1975, lot 232, formerly in the collection of Mrs G I Cameron; and Archibald Frith Allbrook, via Sotheby's, 18th April 1972.