A pair of London delftware plates c.1770-80, probably Lambeth, painted in blue with a Chinese boy seated beneath a weeping willow and looking up, the cavetto with a geometric border, the rim with a scroll border and yellow line, 25.7cm. (2) Provenance: acquired from Sotheby's, 16th December 1968, lot 27 (part). Cf. Lipski & Archer, Dated English Delftware, no.681 for an example dated 1776.