Two small delftware plates c.1740-60, one painted in blue with a standing Chinese figure pointing towards a vase of flowers on a low table, the rim with flying insects and stylized flowering branches, the other of shallow dish form and painted with bamboo behind an ornamental fence and with large flowering plants echoed to the rim, some rim faults, 17.6cm max. (2) Provenance: the plate with a paper label for the Lipski collection, the dish acquired from Sotheby's, 1st June 1965, lot 58 (part), formerly in the collection of F H Garner.