A group of seven English Delftware plates and chargers 18th century

comprising: a Bristol polychrome charger, probably Limekiln Lane, painted with standing and seated figures in Chinese Transitional style; a Lambeth blue and white charger painted with an oriental landscape; a pair of Lambeth polychrome plates painted with a basket of flowers within a garland border; and three London polychrome plates painted with a parrot perched beside peonies and rockwork. One parrot plate restored, some minor chips. 7 pieces.

The Bristol charger is very close in decoration to a similar sized dish in the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery which is initialled on the reverse J ^N E and dated 1733. This dish had a attribution by tradition through the initials to the potter John Niglett, who was apprenticed at the Limekiln Lane pottery in Bristol in 1714. This attribution is discussed in some detail by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, p. 187, no. 12.14, where the dated dish is also illustrated. Despite a lack of direct evidence to link the dish to Niglett, it has been pointed out by Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery, p. 204, no. 145 and pl. 75, that a waster from the Limekiln Lane site, formerly in the Lipski Collection, shows the same distinctive seated lady found on both the present dish and the one in the Bristol Museum Collection. Various other dishes exist which have been linked by either their seated or standing figure decoration to the Limekiln Lane pottery, however the present dish is particularly interesting for its incorporation of both figure poses on the the same piece.