Two delftware large plates or chargers c.1730-60

Two delftware large plates or chargers c.1730-60, one Bristol and painted in blue with a three storey house with a smoking chimney, a figure punting in the foreground, 3 mark to the underside, the other probably Liverpool and painted with a Chinese figure holding a bird by its long tail while a lady watches from a window, the rim with flowering branches and flying insects, some chipping, a short rim crack, 30.7cm max. (2)

Provenance; the latter plate acquired from Sotheby's, 6th December 1983, lot 753 (part), formerly in the collection of Louis L Lipski. The other plate with a paper label bearing the initials GB, possibly for Golding Barrett.