Two English delftware plates, circa 1740-60 One probably London (Lambeth High Street, William Griffith), with a deep powder blue ground reserved with flowerheads and sgraffito decoration, the centre painted with a Chinese figure before plants and a fence, 26.8cm diam, the other Liverpool, painted in blue, yellow, green and manganese with a gentleman doffing his tricorn to a lady seated beside a gate, before tall trees and distant buildings, 22.8cm diam (2) Footnotes: Provenance Louis Gautier Collection (Liverpool plate) With John Howard Birkett Collection A similar plate to the London example, dated 1748, is illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.120, fig.524. For the Liverpool example, see the plate and dish with this distinctive decoration illustrated and discussed by Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), p.228, no.B244. Examples are also illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.291. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing