Three delftware plates c.1730-50, one probably Bristol and painted in blue, red and green with a bird standing beside flowering branches, another London and painted in polychrome enamels with an insect in flight above flowering branches, the last of primitive shape and painted with a basket of flowers within a geometric manganese border, some faults, 22.8cm max. (3) Provenance: respectively acquired from Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 85 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor; and Sotheby's, 2nd March 1965, lot 109 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner.