A delftware pickle dish c.1740-50

A delftware pickle dish c.1740-50, of leaf shape, painted in blue with a bird perched atop flowering branches, within a scroll border, and two delftware saucers, one of toy size and painted in blue with flying insects and prunus sprays, the other with polychrome flower sprays reserved on a drab brown ground, 11.3cm max. (3)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 1st June 1965, lot 54 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner; Christie's, 2nd June 1978, lot 203, formerly in the collection of Mrs G I Cameron; and the collection of Louis L Lipski, no. 192.