Two delftware chargers c.1720-40, probably London, one boldly decorated in red, blue and green with insects in flight above flowering plants, the other with confronting cockerels above bending bamboo, the rim and cavetto with shaped panels of formal floral designs, both with blue X or O and II designs to the underside, the latter broken and restuck, 34.5cm max. (2) Provenance: respectively acquired from Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 94 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor; and Bethnal Green, c.1952.