Two pairs of delftware plates c.1740-50, one pair Bristol and painted in blue with a hut beneath a willow tree, the design echoed to the rim reserved on a manganese cracked-ice ground, the other pair Liverpool and decorated in blue, manganese, green and yellow with flowering chrysanthemum branches, manganese painter's marks to the underside, damages, 23.5cm max. (4) Provenance: respectively acquired from Puttick & Simpson, 8th August 1967, lot 163 (part); Sotheby's, 2nd March 1965, lot 106 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner; and Puttick & Simpson, 22nd November 1967, lot 65 (part).