Five delftware plates c.1740-60, including Liverpool and Bristol, one painted in blue with chrysanthemum sprays, another with flowers in the Fazackerley palette, both within bianco-sopra-bianco borders, one plate with polychrome flower sprays, the last two with a similar design of chrysanthemum branches issuing from rockwork, some faults, 22.5cm max. (5) Provenance: respectively acquired from Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 147 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor; Sotheby's, 26th May 1970; Christie's, 20th February 1967, lot 25 (part); Puttick & Simpson, 23rd August 1966, lot 139 (part); and van Oss, Southwold, c.1953.