A London delft blue and white sprinkled mangenese ground plate
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A London delft blue and white sprinkled mangenese ground plate
painted with an Oriental figure with a spear by terracing and flowers issuing from rockwork, within a shaped cartouche below panels of flowers and an orange-line rim, circa 1750 (minor flakes to rim) -- 21.5cm. diam.; and three blue and white plates, probably Liverpool, each painted with a woman and a boy pointing at birds below a border of flowers, beneath a brown-line rim, circa 1750 (minor flakes to rim) -- 21.5cm. diam. See colour plate 1 (4)
Lot Essay
Cf. John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (1994), p. 163, no. 270 for the first item