TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE MANGANESE-GROUND TILES CIRCA 1740-50 |

each with an octagonal panel painted with a flower-filled vase flanked by two standing birds, reserved on a powdered-ground with four flower-heads at the corners.

Jonathan Horne, London, October, 1997, bearing labels
Vogel Collection no. 631

The example with a larger flower vase, with minor scattered glaze crazing cracks. The other example, with nibble chips to edge and three corners chipped.
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Tiles of this type, which are attributed to London, are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, London, 1997, p. 481, N253, N255 and N257.