A large delftware shallow bowl and a charger c.1740-60, the bowl of large size and painted in blue with a Chinese lady looking out of a window at a further figure holding a long-tailed bird aloft, the cavetto with a panelled diaper border, the charger painted in blue with a Chinese figure seated on a chair before a pagoda beneath a willow tree, the rim with a formal foliate border, the former cracked, some chipping, 35.7cm max. (2) Provenance: respectively acquired from Sotheby's, 6th December 1983, lot 753 (part), formerly in the collection of Louis L Lipski; and Sothebys, 7th April 1970, lot 44.