A rare documentary Liverpool delftware ship charger, c.1756, painted perhaps by William Jackson with a two-masted brig at sail, members of the crew visible on desk, above the inscription 'Success to the John and Mary. John Spencer', the wide rim with a border of stylized flowerheads linked by hatched trellis bands, 36.2cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Bonhams, 21st May 2014, lot 34. Formerly with Jonathan Horne, 2003. Phillips, Bury St Edmunds, 3rd December 1997. By descent from the Spencer family. Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware, p.148. For related ship painting and a discussion of the identification of the ship painter William Jackson see Bernard Watney and Caroline Roberts, ECC Trans. Vol.15, Pt.1, pp.122-133. The Lloyd's Register of Shipping in 1764 records the John and Mary as a single deck brig with beams built in 1756 at Yarmouth, sailing to Leghorn under Captain P. Crombies. The owner was J. Spencer.