A pair of delftware slop bowls c.1740, each painted in polychrome enamels with a long-tailed parrot perched on a branch, and with insects in flight above further flowering branches, the interior with a rockwork vignette in blue, some damages to one, 19.5cm max. (2) Provenance: acquired from Sotheby's, 26th January 1965, lot 35; and Sotheby's, 2nd March 1965, lot 15 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner.