A pair of delftware plates c.1740-60

A pair of delftware plates c.1740-60, probably Lambeth, of simple shape, each painted with a potted plant with sponged manganese leaves, within a continuous leaf and berry border in green, red and blue, and another plate of similar shape painted in blue and manganese with a central flower, one plate broken and restuck, 22.8cm. (3)

Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 9th January 1973, lot 21; and Puttick & Simpson, 22nd November 1967, lot 56 (part), with a paper label for the W L Little Collection.

Cf. Bonhams, Sampson and Horne; Defining the British Vernacular, 28th April 2010, lot 395 for a similar plate to the pair.