Three delftware plates c.1760, two of octagonal form, one attributed to Michael Edkins at Redcliffe Back Pottery, painted with a reclining fisherman beside a figure in an arbour, the other Lambeth and with a Chinese figure carrying a stick beside flowering plants, the powder blue rim with flower sprays left in the white, the last a larger Bristol plate painted in blue with a small hut beside towering rockwork within a shaped cartouche, the rim with vignettes of plants and rocks, some rim damages, 26.4cm max. (3) Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 1st June 1965, lot 77 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner; Christie's, 5th April 1965, lots 79 and 78 (part), both formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor.