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Collection of Delftware. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £2+VAT for subsequent lots)

Unusual 18th century continental Delftware dish, probably Dutch, polychrome painted with foliate patterns, and a central cross design, 22.5cm diameter

An 18th century Glasgow Delftware charger and a matching plate, largest 35.5cmCONDITION: The larger charger has a 3in. crack to the rim and has many chips and paint losses to the rim, the smaller dish has also firing marks and chips to the glaze around the rim.

Group of 18th Century and later tiles to include; a group of Delftware-style examples with circular views (most vertically cut in half), together with an Art Nouveau tile and a dust-pressed tile, etc

A Liverpool delftware woodblock tile, c.1760, printed in blue by John Sadler with a Dutch canal scene, 12.8cm. Cf. Anthony Ray, Liverpool Printed Tiles, p.20, No. A5-3.

Three early Liverpool delftware woodblock tiles, c.1756-57, printed by Sadler and Green, each with an octagonal panel containing two ships engaged in battle at sea, within foliate scroll borders with quarter flowerhead corners, some damages, 13cm. (3)

A Liverpool delftware bird tile, c.1750-75, painted with a large finch-like bird painted in yellow, blue, ochre and manganese, perched on green branches, the corners with blue floret motifs, 12.8cm.

A pair of London delftware tiles, c.1710, painted in manganese, each with an octagonal panel, one of two figures dancing beneath a tree, the other of travellers meeting, the corners with angel motifs, 12.8cm. (2)

Two delftware tiles, c.1730, possibly Vauxhall, each decorated with an eight-pointed star in blue on a powdered manganese ground, 13cm. (2)

A Bristol delftware bird tile, c.1760, decorated with a bird perched on a stump, painted in red, blue and yellow within a manganese outline, within a floral bianco-sopra-bianco border, 13.2cm. Paper label for Garry Atkins.

A rare Liverpool delftware tile, c.1760-70, painted in manganese with a dancing Chinese figure beside another figure holding a long stick and extending his left arm, with a shaped border of flowerheads on a yellow scale ground, the corners each with a polychrome flower roundel, 12.7cm.

Four delftware tiles, c.1760-70, one Biblical and painted in blue with Christ carrying the cross, another painted with a girl carrying a basket on her head, one with a fox seated in a landscape, the last decorated in manganese with swans swimming in a river, some damages, 13.2cm max. (4)

A good pair of Bristol delftware chargers, c.1740-60, well decorated in polychrome enamels with a large insect in flight above a bird perched on a flowering branch beside an ornamental fence, 34cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware charger, c.1740, painted in red, blue and green with a long-tailed bird perched on tall rockwork above flowering plants, the rim with four floral vignettes, 33.9cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A pair of Bristol delftware chargers, c.1740-60, painted in a limited polychrome palette with a long-tailed bird perched on a flowering branch above a further bird standing on rockwork before an ornamental fence, an insect in flight above, 34cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware plate, dated 1757, possibly Liverpool, painted in blue with bamboo and flowering peony, inscribed 'I P 1757', the scalloped rim with four flower sprays, 23cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware plate, dated 1742, probably London, painted in blue with a Chinese lady holding a fan and standing between a large vase of flowers and a pagoda by a fence, inscribed with the letter T above R E and the date 1742, 21.8cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware plate, c.1760, painted with two Chinese figures standing beneath a fringed tree in a garden landscape, a pagoda visible beyond, the rim with repeated flower sprays, 21.7cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A rare Bristol delftware documentary Adam and Eve charger, dated 1755, the first couple depicted flanking the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent brightly enamelled and entwining the tree trunk beneath sponged green foliage, the dish inscribed 'John Archer 1755' in blue, broken and repaired, 26cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Illustrated: Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, p.132, no. 587. The plate then listed as being in the collection of T C Brooke in Norfolk.

A Bristol delftware 'Farmhouse' plate, c.1720-30, painted with a bold peacock in yellow, blue and red, standing between sponged manganese trees, 22.3cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. An old paper label to the reverse stating "Known to have been over 100 years in one family in Shropshire".

A Bristol delftware 'Farmhouse' plate, c.1720-30, painted with a bold cockerel in yellow, blue and red, standing between sponged manganese trees, with a flock of birds in flight above, 22.5cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A Dublin delftware soup plate, c.1760, painted with a bird in flight above a pine tree encircled by an ornamental fence, a further bird perched on rockwork beside flowering plants, within an elaborate panelled rim, numeral 15 to the underside, 23.8cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A Wincanton delftware octagonal plate, c.1740, the well painted in blue with a soldier guarding a harbour fortress, reserved on a powdered manganese ground with further small panels of stylized flowerheads, a rim crack, 22.8cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

An Irish delftware plate, c.1760, probably Dublin, painted with flower sprays in shades of yellow, blue, green and manganese, blue numeral 2 mark to the underside, 23cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Purchased from Bonhams, The Sampson and Horne Collection, 28th April 2010, lot 409.

A delftware plate, mid 18th century, probably Bristol, painted in blue with a tall house at the water's edge, issuing smoke from a chimney, beside tall trees and a cross or signpost, 22.7cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Cf. Woolley and Wallis, 20th February 2018, lot 108 for a similar example.

A delftware plate, c.1730, naively painted in blue with a large bird standing with beak agape beside simple flowering plants, the rim with foliate sprigs, 22.8cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware plate, c.1750, probably London, painted in manganese, red and blue with a small hut flying a long pennant, within a hexagonal husk swag border, 23.3cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Purchased from The Warner Collection of British Delftware, 17th September 2019, lot 7 (part).

A London delftware Royal dish, c.1690, painted in blue with a double head and shoulders portrait of William and Mary, each crowned, William wearing an ermine-lined robe, within narrow blue line borders, broken and riveted, 22cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. William and Mary were proclaimed King and Queen as joint sovereigns in 1689 and reigned together until Mary's death in 1694. A number of fragments found by Garner in Lambeth correspond with this design. See Michael Archer, Delftware, item B2, p 115.

A good and rare English delftware King of Prussia plate, c.1757-60, painted in blue with a head and shoulders portrait of Frederick II of Prussia between the letters KP, 22cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Cf. Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection, Vol. II, D56 for a similar King of Prussia plate.

A rare documentary Liverpool delftware ship charger, c.1756, painted perhaps by William Jackson with a two-masted brig at sail, members of the crew visible on desk, above the inscription 'Success to the John and Mary. John Spencer', the wide rim with a border of stylized flowerheads linked by hatched trellis bands, 36.2cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Bonhams, 21st May 2014, lot 34. Formerly with Jonathan Horne, 2003. Phillips, Bury St Edmunds, 3rd December 1997. By descent from the Spencer family. Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware, p.148. For related ship painting and a discussion of the identification of the ship painter William Jackson see Bernard Watney and Caroline Roberts, ECC Trans. Vol.15, Pt.1, pp.122-133. The Lloyd's Register of Shipping in 1764 records the John and Mary as a single deck brig with beams built in 1756 at Yarmouth, sailing to Leghorn under Captain P. Crombies. The owner was J. Spencer.

A pair of delftware plates, c.1760, each painted in blue with a kylin seated on a square cushion before a vase containing flowering peony branches, within shaped panels issuing further small panels reserved on a powdered blue ground, some rim chipping, 22.4cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

Two delftware plates, mid 18th century, one probably Wincanton and painted with a polychrome flower spray within a woolpack panel on a pale powdered manganese ground, the other decorated in polychrome enamels with willow and flowering Oriental plants beside an ornamental fence, 22.5cm max. (2) Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A Lambeth delftware plate, dated 1748, painted in blue with a Chinese figure holding a long feather or leaf frond and walking through a garden with an ornamental fence and flowering plants, inscribed with the letter S over I M, the rim with flower sprays on a powdered blue ground, the underside with the initials repeated above the date 1748, a rim chip and associated crack, 22.2cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A small delftware octagonal plate, c.1690, probably London, painted in blue with a Chinese figure seated in a landscape, the scene echoed to the rim, 21.7cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware flower brick, c.1760, of rectangular form, the long sides painted with landscape scenes of figures in boats beside trees and buildings, with similar landscapes echoed to the short sides, the recessed top set with an arrangement of 18 small holes flanking a larger central opening, 12cm across. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A delftware flower brick, c.1760, the rectangular form painted to the long sides with a figure in a boat beside trees and buildings, the short sides with a boat at sail, the recessed top pierced with small holes around a central shaped aperture, 13.5cm across. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A rare delftware puzzle jug, dated 1741, the globular body inscribed with the traditional four line wager above the inscription 'O S M 1741', flanked to one side with a circular panel of a castle flying a pennant, the other with a figure walking away from a Chinese pagoda, the tall cylindrical neck pierced with a geometric arrangement of holes with blue dash detailing, the inside rim with a scroll design, one spout broken and restuck, 16.5cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A documentary delftware plate, dated 1763, possibly Liverpool, the well inscribed in blue with 'Success to the Old Boy at Gasting Thomas Knowles 1763', some rim chipping, 23cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Literature: The Connoisseur, April 1918, Mrs Hemming, 'Liverpool Delft', pl. XIII. Mrs Hemming identifies the word on the plate as 'Casting'. See also, Lipski & Archer, Dated English Delftware, p.141, nos. 630A-C for Mrs Hemming's plate and three others from the same set. The authors identify the place as probably being Garstang in Lancashire, 'The Old Boy' presumably being a tavern of that name.

A delftware blue dash tulip charger, c.1680, probably Brislington, boldly painted with three tulips and long straight leaves unusually issuing from a chequered vase or bowl with scrollwork decoration, within concentric yellow and blue lines and a blue dash rim, the underside with a thin buff glaze, 34.5cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

A London delftware apothecary or pill slab, c.1785, possibly Mortlake, the elongated octagonal form painted in blue with the arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries above the motto 'Opiferque Per Orbem Dicor', the sides glazed manganese, the top pierced with two suspension holes, 30.4cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Bonhams, The Sampson and Horne Collection, 28th April 2010, lot 182. Paper label for the Charles J Lomax Collection.

A delftware wash basin, c.1750-70, with an everted rim, painted in blue with two Chinese figures beside trees and rockwork in a garden setting, within a simple scroll border, 26.5cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country.

Four delftware plates, mid 18th century, one Bristol and painted with a fisherman in a typical landscape within a bianco-sopra-bianco border, another painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese with flowering branches within a scalloped rim, one London and painted in blue with a Chinese lady beneath a gnarled tree, the last painted with a hut beside rockwork and trees, some damages, 22.5cm. (4) The first plate with a paper label for the Warren Collection.

Four delftware plates, c.1740-60, two painted in blue with differing designs of flowering Oriental plants, two with geometric flowerhead designs, some damages, 22.8cm max. (4)

Four Bristol delftware plates, c.1760-70, two painted with figures in boats and fishing before buildings and a tall tree, another with a large pine tree over a pagoda landscape, the last with flowering peony sprays and bamboo by a zigzag fence, all within varying bianco-sopra-bianco borders, 22.8cm. (4) Various paper labels for Garry Atkins, Group Captain A F Britton and Jonathan Horne.

A pair of delftware soup plates, c.1760, each painted in blue with a bird in flight above peony and rockwork, another bird perched on flowering prunus, the rims with ruyi motifs on trellis borders, 23.2cm. Cf. The Warner Collection of British Delftware, Woolley and Wallis, 17th September 2019, lot 119 for a charger in the same pattern.

A pair of Lambeth delftware plates, c.1750-60, each painted with a Chinese lady holding a fan and standing beneath curved branches, predominantly decorated in manganese with blue, green and yellow highlights, the rims with leafy panels on a trellis ground, 22.5cm. (2)

A pair of delftware plates, c.1710-20, possibly London, painted in blue, green, red and manganese, each with a bird perched on branches of flowering Oriental plants, within a border of five stylized flowerhead panels reserved on a trellis ground, 22cm. (2)

A delftware plate, mid 18th century, probably Bristol, painted in blue with a standing crane or heron beside tall flowering plants, the rim with a continuous fleur de lys border, some glaze chipping, 23cm.

A Bristol delftware plate, c.1760, of Bowen type, painted in blue with two ladies promenading in a European landscape before a house and beneath tall sponged trees, 22.7cm.

A Liverpool delftware plate, c.1760, painted in blue with a kylin seated on a square cushion before a vase containing flowering peony branches, in a shaped panel issuing further small panels reserved on a powdered blue ground, 22.5cm.

An English delftware plate, dated 1710, inscribed in blue with the letter Y over the initials W M above the date 1710, all within a circlet of crossed leafy branches, broken and restored, 21.8cm. Cf. Lipski & Archer, Dated English Delftware, p.70, no. 257 for a plate from the same series.

A London delftware bottle or vase, c.1700-20, painted in blue and black with a dense floral design, the tall neck with stylized leaf motifs and differing stripes, some chipping, the base drilled, 18.5cm.

Two delftware plates, c.1720-80, one painted in blue with boats sailing between sponged trees, the other decorated in manganese with loose flower sprays within a husk garland border and feathered rim, the first broken and restored, 23cm max. (2)

A large delftware plate, c.1750, painted in blue with a figure in a punt and other figures in boats before buildings along the shore and beneath tall trees, some chipping, 27cm. Provenance: the Lipski Collection, no. 997.

Two Bristol delftware plates, c.1760, painted in shades of yellow, blue and manganese, one with a Chinese figure walking before a pagoda, the other with two figures conversing in an island landscape, both within bianco-sopra-bianco borders and scalloped rims, 22.8cm. (2) Paper labels for Garry Atkins.

Two delftware plates, c.1760, one Bristol and painted in the Fazackerly palette with a tied bunch of flowers, the other in blue with two Chinese figures communicating across a rocky crevasse, both within bianco-sopra-bianco floral scroll borders, 22.8cm. (2) The latter plate with a paper label for Jonathan Horne.

A delftware plate, c.1785-95, of 'Ann Gomm' type, painted with a manganese hexagon motif within stylized polychrome flowers, a Delft plate painted with rockwork before an ornamental fence, and another painted with vases of flowers in a bold polychrome palette, small damages, 23cm max. (3)

Two delftware chargers, c.1740-60, one painted with flowering peony and stems of bamboo, with flower sprays echoed to the rim, the other with small boats beside pagodas in an island landscape, the border with a band of trellis, 34.8cm max. (2)

A delftware charger, c.1750, probably London, painted to the well with a bird perched on reeds amidst flowering plants, the rim with incised yellow stylized flower sprays on a powdered manganese ground, and a large Delft charger, painted in blue with fronting birds beneath tall flowering plants, the rim with stylized panels in the Kraak manner, rim cracks, one riveted, 35.3cm max. (2)

Two delftware chargers, c.1750-70, painted in blue with chinoiserie scenes, with figures and attendants in garden settings beside trees and fences, one with a deer beside, one rim with stylized flower sprays, the other with ornamental fences, 31.2cm max. (2)