Three Enamel-painted Creamware Plates, Staffordshire, England, c. 1780 and 1880.

Three Enamel-painted Creamware Plates, Staffordshire, England, c. 1780 and 1880. One plate with scalloped edge with conforming rib-molded fans tapering into the marly, embellished with red and black enamel-painted decoration and resist-printed band of alternating flowers, impressed 'WEDGWOOD' on bottom and possible date code 'HMI' for 1880, together with two unmarked dinner plates with a molded feather edge and flowered marly centering a hand-painted well border, the black-painted plate depicting the Anointing of Samuel ('Samuel 10-1') in a hatched engraving style likely based on Dutch prints; the red-bordered plate depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac ('Genesis 22') in iron red and black enamel, with Abraham holding knife over Isaac on a fiery altar and the angel of God intervening, diam. 9 3/4, ht. 1 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Geometric plate from the Collection of Lloyd J. Bleier (1915-2002), Los Angeles, California, no. P876, 2 September 1995. Plates with biblical subjects from estate of Vivian S. Hawes (1923-99), sold by Kenneth W. Van Blarcom, Natick, Massachusetts, 4 November 2000. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing