A large delftware charger and two punchbowls c.1740-80

A large delftware charger and two punchbowls c.1740-80, the charger probably Liverpool and finely pencilled in pale blue with a flowering prunus tree, both bowls of shallow form and painted in blue with Oriental flower sprays, and a Delft charger painted with a bold floral arrangement within a yellow line border, some damages, 36cm max. (4)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 18th January 1972, lot 205; Sotheby's, 2nd March 1965, lot 15 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner; Dunmow, 1956; and Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 18 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor.