Four delftware plates c.1760-70, two Bristol and painted in blue with a figure fishing and two figures in a boat before a village landscape with a tall tree, one Liverpool with two Chinese figures beneath a willow tree, the last larger and painted with peony and bamboo beside an ornamental fence, all with floral bianco-sopra-bianco borders, some faults, 30cm max. (4) Provenance: acquired from Christie's, 5th April 1965, lot 82 (part), formerly in the collection of Sir Gilbert Mellor.