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An 18th Century Bristol Delftware tile decorated with figures within a landscape and with Putti corners, 12.5cms square together with another 18th Century Liverpool Delftware tile, 13cms square

An 18th Century Bristol blue Delftware tile, 13.5cms square, together with another 18th Century Liverpool blue tile, 13cms square and another 18th Century blue tile, 12.5cms square

An 18th Century Liverpool Delftware blue tile, 12.5cms square together with an 18th Century London Delftware blue tile, 12.5cms square and another 18th Century blue tile, 12.5cms square

An antique Delftware Dish (possibly Liverpool) with Fazackerley pallette, floral and foliage decorations, 9in Diam

Earthenware large round bowl, printed in blue with the vessel 'Caroline', and the motto 'Within this bowl rich and deep I cradle all my woes to sleep', in the style of Liverpool delftware, 31.5cm diameterThere is a filled crack on the rim - please see additional image.

A Liverpool (Philip Christian) bowl, circa 1765Of generous proportions, the centre fully painted in blue with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl, its long tail curling over the rim and coiling around the exterior, 20cm diamFootnotes:Although this pattern occurs on delftware and pearlware, it is unusual to find Dragon bowls of this large size in porcelain. For a similar example, please see the Pinewood Collection, Phillips, 31 October 2001, lot 103. A teabowl and saucer was sold by Bonhams, 15 December 2023, lot 95.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An important documentary Liverpool (Seth Pennington) jug, dated 1798Painted perhaps by William Jackson, of generous baluster form with a turned spreading foot and scroll-moulded spout, with a distinctive three-scroll handle, finely painted in blue with a typical three-storey Liverpool windmill, the Liverpool Infirmary and further buildings in the distance, the reverse inscribed 'J; SHAW 1798' below a complex printed floral border with two butterflies in flight, 24.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWatney CollectionIllustrated and discussed by Bernard Watney, 'Fragments from Liverpool: The Pennington Manufactories', ECC Trans, Vol.15, Pt.2 (1994), pp.283-5, figs.2 and 3 and by Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain (1997), pp.99-100 and 102, figs.394, 401 and dustjacket. Exhibited in the Liverpool Exhibition, Phillips 1997. The date on this important jug indicates that it was made by Seth Pennington at Shaw's Brow, just a year before the factory was put up for sale. The moulding on the handle and lip are derived from earlier examples made by Philip Christian at the factory. It was made for Jeremiah Shaw, who operated a mill near Liverpool Infirmary, and it is likely that the building depicted in the distance is the Infirmary itself. Watney suggests that the style of the painting, which is reminiscent of delftware, coupled with the meticulous attention to detail suggests that William Jackson, the ship and 'prospect' painter, was the decorator responsible.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare Liverpool (Samuel Gilbody) cornucopia wall pocket, circa 1758-60Of spirally fluted form, the flared lobed rim moulded in low relief with berried leaves left in the white against a blue ground, the spiral moulding picked in blue with trailing foliage, 20.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Phillips, 10 May 2000, lot 668Illustrated by Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain (1997), p.57, fig.216 and exhibited at Phillips Liverpool Exhibition in the same year. A similar example is illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.306, fig.7.70, where the author notes its extreme rarity. Related shapes are found in contemporary English pottery. A delftware wall pocket dated 1748 and most likely made in Liverpool is illustrated by Louis L Lipski, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.356, no.1568. However, a more direct influence may be from English saltglaze. See Arnold R Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware (1971), fig.34 for a block mould for a cornucopia with a very similar border to the present lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An English blue and white delftware flower brick, probably Liverpool, circa 1760, having nineteen ringed flower holes, decorated with a pastoral scene, w.11.5cmLoss to glaze at edges as to be expected.Some fairly deep chips and nibbles.

A Liverpool blue and white delftware puzzle jug, circa 1765, the three spouts and pierced neck above a globular body inscribed with the 'Here gentleman come try your skill' poem, h.19.5cmRestored

Four English delftware blue and white plates, circa 1770 perhaps Liverpool, painted with Chinese style decoration of a pagoda and trees, 22.5cm diameter

A delftware puzzle jug, c.1760, probably Liverpool, painted with flower sprays flanking a four line verse inviting drinkers to try their luck, the tall neck pierced with hearts and ovals, the rim with three small spouts, some good restoration to one spout, some glaze chipping, 18.5cm high.

A rare pair of Delft plates, early 18th century, boldly painted in blue, red, green and yellow with a formal Dutch garden landscape showing a narrow canal before spired buildings and a prominent cockerel weather vane, with a rare Liverpool delftware plate painted in blue with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang after a Chinese original, damages and restoration, 29.5cm max. (3)

An English Delft Plate, probably Liverpool or Bristol, circa 1750, painted in manganese and blue with a chinoiserie figure sitting beneath a tree in a fenced garden23.5cm diameterA Similar Dish, of circular form, painted in blue with a European figure on a bridge, a thatched cottage and sailing ship beyond within a fruiting vine and scroll border (2)Provenance: Plate with DM & P Manheim and with label for Group Captain A F BrittonFor a similar plate see Archer (Michael) Delftware: The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, pg.217Typical minor glaze flakes and scratching.

COLLECTION OF NEOCLASSICAL LIVERPOOL DELFTWARE TILES LATE 18TH CENTURY transfer printed by Sadler, the designs washed over in green enamel, with examples including ‘The Three Graces’, ‘Apollo’, the ‘Four Seasons’, and classical vases (one framed), also including two rectangular border tiles with scrolling acanthus leaf designs approximately 12.5cm x 12.5cm, with slight variations, the border tiles approximately 12.2cm x 6.2cm, framed tile 15.7cm x 15.7cm The Collection of Michael Archer OBE FSA (1936-2022), Keeper, Ceramics and Glass department, Victoria & Albert Museum, LondonGreat House, Dedham, Essex

A delftware coffee cup, c.1760, probably Liverpool, painted in blue with a long-tailed bird hanging upside down from a flowering branch issuing from rockwork, brown line rim, a little chipping to the rim, 5.8cm high.Provenance: the Lipski collection, sold Sotheby's 17th November 1981, lot 322.Exhibited: Northern Ceramics Society, 1989 at the Stoke-on-Trent Museum.

A rare pair of Liverpool delftware tile panels, c.1760, each formed of twelve tiles brightly painted with a bird perched on a low fence beside a large peony bloom, with tall flowering branches above, each set in a modern wooden mount, some restoration or replacement, each panel 53.5 x 40.3cm. (2)Cf. Jonathan Horne, English Tin-Glazed Tiles, fig.681, p.123 for a similar full example.Tile panels similar to these were made to decorate the walls of European royal residences, such as the Château de Rambouillet, near Paris, built in 1715-30, and Schloss Amaliënburg near Munich, built in 1734-9. Tile panels at Amaliënburg, including a number similar to this, seem to have originally been intended for the Residenz-Schloss in Munich, which suffered an extensive fire in 1729.

18th Century School, An English Delftware tile, attributed to John Sadler of Liverpool, A courting couple within a Rococco style surround, displayed within an ebonised frame, measuring 12cm x 12cm, & 16cm x 16cm overall

An English blue and white delftware water bottle painted with scrolling flowers and foliage, the neck with diaper and line bands, probably Liverpool, 22cm [neck reduced, glaze loss to underside].

A rare English delftware punch ladle, circa 1750With a round bowl applied with a long slender handle, painted in blue with trailing foliage, the handle with blue dashes, 17.5cm longFootnotes:Punch ladles were made in silver and other materials, with a curled over terminal on the handles that allowed the ladles to be hung on the rim of a punchbowl. Related shapes are known in glass from the 18th century. A white saltglaze punch ladle was sold by Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of Five Hundred Years of English Pottery, (1992), p.18, no.46. No other English delftware punch ladle is apparently recorded. However, an interesting parallel might be drawn from the decoration on a Liverpool delftware bowl from the Olive Collection, sold by Bonhams on 31 January 2019, lot 118, contemporary with the present lot. The bowl is painted with a detailed scene after William Hogarth's 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' where the central figure ladles punch from a ceramic punch bowl, the ladle of indeterminate material.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare Liverpool (Samuel Gilbody) cornucopia wall pocket, circa 1758-60Of spirally fluted form, the flared lobed rim moulded in low relief with berried leaves left in the white against a blue ground, the spiral moulding picked in blue with trailing foliage, 20.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Phillips, 10 May 2000, lot 668Illustrated by Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain (1997), p.57, fig.216 and exhibited at Phillips Liverpool Exhibition in the same year. A similar example is illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.306, fig.7.70, where the author notes its extreme rarity. Related shapes are found in contemporary English pottery. A delftware wall pocket dated 1748 and most likely made in Liverpool is illustrated by Louis L Lipski, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.356, no.1568. However, a more direct influence may be from English saltglaze. See Arnold R Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware (1971), fig.34 for a block mould for a cornucopia with a very similar border to the present lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An English Delftware charger, circa 1760, probably Liverpool, decorated in the Chinese manner in blue with stylised vase, flowers and rockwork, floral and trellis border, brown edged rim, 34cms diameter.

A GROUP OF SIX NAVAL COMMEMORATIVE JUGS, 19TH-20TH CENTURYcomprising small jug in lavender Parian ware by Samuel Alcock representing Captain Sir William Sidney Smith at the Siege of Acre, 5in. (13cm.) high; a lusterware pottery jug decorated with the action between “The United States and Macedonian”, 5in. (13cm.); a lusterware pottery jug representing the action of “The Hornet sinking the Peacock”, 4in. (10cm.); a Delftware jug commemorating “Cockburn for Ever”, 6½in. (16.5cm.); a Liverpool creamware representing sailors celebrating, 5½in. (13.5cm.); and a Royal Doulton Nelson commemorative type, 5½ in.(14cm.)(6)No apparent chips, minor paint loss only

A collection of thirty four 18th-century Liverpool delftware titles with manganese decoration, twenty border tiles with foliate decoration, fourteen decorated with various subjectsthe border tiles 12.5cm x 6.5cm; the others 12.5cm x 12.5cmQty: 34Some biscuit chipping to the edges of the border tiles. One with a repair to the corner. Similar biscuit chipping to the square tiles, one with losses to the corner.

An English blue and white Delftware plate, perhaps Liverpool, painted with bird by a fence in a garden within a quatrefoil cartouche and a polychrome plate with parrot, probably Lambeth, mid-18th Century, 20cm and 23cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Six Delftware blue and white plates, painted with an Oriental garden, 18th Century, possibly Liverpool or Dublin, 23cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: two have a slight variation on the design to the other four, of those two one has rim chip at 5 o'clock and 9 o'clock. Of the four one has some more noticeable but small rim chips and a glaze chip at 8 o'clock, all with some light rim chipping and glaze fritting, no damage or repairs

Four English Delftware blue and white plates, circa 1760, painted with a bird perched on a central flower surrounded by further flowers, perhaps Liverpool, 23cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Three Liverpool delftware tiles, c.1775-80, two printed in black and enamelled in green, one with the muse Terpsichore standing before a tall pillar, the other with four maidens in an oval panel tied with ribbon, the last printed in manganese with a girl dancing to a fiddle accompaniment, signed 'J Sadler Liverpool', 12.8cm max. (3)Provenance: from the collection of the late Jonathan Horne.Illustrated: Jonathan Horne, English Tin-Glazed Tiles, p.132, fig.733 for the Muse tile.

A delftware sweetmeat or hors d'oeuvres dish, c.1750, probably Liverpool, of heart shape, painted in blue with a central peony spray within a trellis border, some good restoration, 12cm.Provenance: from the collection of the late Jonathan Horne.

Four Liverpool delftware chinoiserie tiles, c.1750-75, two painted in polychrome enamels with a standing Chinese figure within quarter flowerhead corners, another painted in blue with two Chinese figures, the last with a figure holding a long-handled net, within a floral panelled border, 12.8cm max. (4)Provenance: from the collection of the late Jonathan Horne.Illustrated: Jonathan Horne, English Tin-Glazed Tiles, p.58, figs.306 and 309.

Three delftware plates, c.1750-70, one Bristol and painted in the Fazackerly palette with a flower arrangement within a bianco-sopra-bianco border, another Liverpool and painted with figures on a bridge before low huts on an island, the last painted with a lady in a wide hat looking at a large bird perched on a fence, within a panelled diaper border, 23.3cm max. (3)Provenance: from the collection of the late Jonathan Horne.

A rare delftware reticulated plate, c.1760, London or Liverpool, the well painted with a gillyflower spray within smaller scattered sprig, the rim pierced with abstract shapes, 24.3cm.Reticulation of this type is rare on delftware and the mould may have originally been intended for porcelain. This, coupled with the Gillyflower design, would suggest a Liverpool attribution is more likely.

A Liverpool delftware tile, c.1755-75, well painted in polychrome enamels with haymakers before tall ricks, and a Delft tile from a large panel, painted with two Chinese figures in colourful junks, each mounted in a later wooden frame, 14.5cm overall. (2)Provenance: from the collection of the late Jonathan Horne.

A large delftware plate, possibly Liverpool, 18th century, decorated to the centre in yellow, blue, green and manganese with a rural landscape of a couple courting with trees and building to the background, unmarked, 34cm diameter  Condition Report: Heavy pitting to the interior and underside, losses of glaze to the rim 

An English delftware polychrome flower brick, circa 1740Possibly Bristol or Wincanton, painted in blue with stylised mimosa, the rhomboidal leaves picked out in green with iron-red 'berries', 14.7cm wideFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Jonathan HorneAlthough more sparsely decorated, a similar flower brick is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.307, no.19.58. Shards decorated with so-called mimosa pattern have been excavated at Bristol, Wincanton, London and Liverpool but more commonly appear in blue. A number of plates painted with a version of the pattern and all bearing the date 1738 are recorded in Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), pp.101-2, figs.439-45.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare Liverpool (Samuel Gilbody) plate, circa 1758-60Of plain circular shape, painted in dark blue with a peony spray and two flying insects, an elaborate panelled diaper border around the cavetto, a simple dentil and loop border to the rim, 23.5cm diamFootnotes:ProvenancePinewood Collection, Phillips, 31 October 2001, lot 81With Simon SperoThis extraordinary piece of porcelain has an experimental feel and there is clearly the influence of delftware in the design. Many of the plates once attributed to Gilbody were reattributed to William Reid following excavations at Brownlow Hill, but this plate differs significantly to the finds from the site. Just two Gilbody plates are recorded by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 (2011), pp.301-2, fig.7.60, and like the present lot these both have sunken turned footrims and lack the stilt marks characteristic of Reid plates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare and large English delftware tea canister or tobacco jar and a cover, circa 1760Probably Liverpool, of tall rectangular shape and square profile with canted edges, a large rectangular aperture on top, painted in blue on three sides with elaborate Chinese garden scenes, including buildings, long-tailed birds, flowering plants and insects, the fourth side with a large peony spray, within a scrolling border, the replacement Chinese porcelain cover with metal mount, 16.5cm high (2)Footnotes:The comma-like scroll border is found on a Liverpool twin-handled sauceboat in the Glaisher Collection, illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (2013), p.281, no.G.15. Also in the Glaisher Collection is a canister similar to the present lot but of slightly smaller proportions and with the more traditional central nozzle expected of a tea canister. Both examples seem unusually large in comparison with contemporary tobacco jars or tea canisters. This might be explained by Liverpool's booming trade of both tobacco and tea in the mid-17th century.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare English delftware puzzle jug, circa 1760-70Probably Bristol, of spherical shape, the narrow neck pierced to form intersecting circles and diamonds, the hollow rim with three nozzles and another hole secreted to the underside of the handle, painted in blue with chrysanthemum sprays, the neck picked out in a cell or 'fish-roe' border, 19.7cm highFootnotes:The majority of English delftware puzzle jugs would appear to have been made in Liverpool. Distinctive features of the present lot including the slender neck formed of interlocking circles, the fine handle and the slightly concave base, wiped clean of glaze, point to a Bristol attribution. Two puzzle jugs of similar form are illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.91, no.6.19 and p.284, no.18.20. The first mentioned of these jugs has the same 'fish-roe' decoration to the pierced neck.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Four Liverpool delftware plates, c.1750-75, all painted in blue, one with a bird perched on flowering peony, one with a Chinaman standing in a garden with another visible in a window, another with flowering branches within a panelled border, the last of small size and painted with a censer of flowers, some damages, 22.3cm max. (4)

Two Lancaster or Liverpool delftware plates, c.1760, one painted in blue with a pagoda in an island landscape, the other with bamboo and peony issuing from holey rootwork, the former broken and riveted, 22.3cm max. (2)Cf. Barbara Blenkinship and Matthew S Hobson, Lancaster Delftware, p.69 and p.77 for similar plates.

A delftware plate, c.1740, possibly Liverpool, painted in polychrome enamels with two swans swimming before low buildings and three trees, the rim with a berried border, 22.8cm.

A large Liverpool delftware soup plate, mid 18th century, the well painted in blue with flowering plants, the rim with three birds in flight between leaf sprigs, some glaze chipping, 25.5cm.Paper label for the Warner Collection.

A pair of small delftware octagonal plates, c.1770, Liverpool or Dublin, painted in blue with La Pêche, a lady fishing and watched by a figure beneath an archway, with a Pratt ware novelty pipe, c.1800, formed of elaborate coils of clay decorated in blue and ochre dots, some chipping and restoration, 29.8cm max. (3)The design on the plates, commonly seen on Caughley and Worcester porcelains, is copied from a design by Jean Pillement, engraved by P C Canot and published in 1759. It was then published in the second edition of The Ladies Amusement the following year.

Eight Liverpool delftware tiles, c.1750-70, painted in blue with figures in European landscape scenes reserved within octagonal borders, the corners with quarter flowerheads, 12.4cm. (8)

Two English Delftware plates, mid 18th Century, one probably Liverpool, with a Chinese figure by a tree, panelled border, 22.8cm, the other probably London with an unusual 'cracked ice' pattern in blue and manganese, 23cm diameter/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection CONDITION REPORT: Cracked ice plate - with two rim chips, the largest being 3cm wide, with a further smaller chip to the underside of the rim, a hairline crack from rim to centre, another shorter crack and further glaze crazing and cracking.Plate with Chinese figure - with two glaze chips to rim, one to front and the other to the back, further minute glaze chipping. Otherwise ok.

A set of six 18th century English Delftware plates, possibly Liverpool, decorated with chinoiserie scenes in iron red, diameter 12.75cm (6)Condition Report: All with fritting and wear at the rims. Two with slightly heavier at the rims which verges on chips, one with a larger chip to the rim, and one with a hairline crack extending to a star crack in the centre, and several chips at the rim.

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting the fox and the stork, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.494, p.525Restored to upper right corner, transfer is nice and dark, some surface scratching to the glaze, minor chips to the glaze at the edges.

A Liverpool polychrome delftware plate, circa 1760, decorated with flowers in the Fazackerly palette, dia.22.5cm, together with three similar Liverpool polychrome delftware plates, 18th century (4) Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, B.162, p.192

A Liverpool blue and white delftware puzzle jug, circa 1765, the three spouts and pierced neck above a globular body inscribed with the 'Here gentleman come try your skill' poem, h.21.5cmReference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, fig. D.6, p.259Has been cracked and restored.

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1757-61, depicting a couple in a garden beside a pineapple plant, 13 x 13cmThis design is adapted from plate 32 of the Ladies' Amusement, with alterations to the background. It is one of very few designs of which the mirrored version is also known, as well as an enamelled version. Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.466, p.519It has been cracked through the centre and glued back together, a chip to the glaze upper left corner and left edge, minor chips to glaze along the other edges.

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting the lion and the fox, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.496, p.525Transfer is quite pale, it has been in half and restored, the glaze around the edge has been chipped and restored.

An English blue and white delftware flower brick, probably Liverpool, circa 1760, having twenty-three ringed flower holes, decorated with a tower, l.12cm References: Archer M (1997) Delftware, I.14, p369 and Grigsby L (2000) The Longridge Collection, D.376, p.417Some light loss of glaze to the edges.Two of the feet have small chips to the corners.Condition is generally very good for delftware.

An English blue and white delftware bowl, probably Liverpool, circa 1750, decorated with flowers, dia.19cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, F.30, p.300

A Bristol polychrome delftware charger, probably Richard Frank of Redcliff Back, circa 1755, decorated with flowers and bamboo, dia.33cm, together with an English blue and white delftware charger, probably London or Bristol, circa 1760, decorated with flowers and bamboo, 35cm, and a Liverpool blue and white delftware charger, probably Drinkwater, Duke Street, circa 1777, decorated with swans before a pagoda, 30cm (3) References: Archer M (1997) Delftware, B.148, p.186, and B.136, p.182 and Garner and Archer (1972) English delftware, plate 110A

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting the sailor's return, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.451, p.515Transfer is quite pale, lower left has been off and glued back on, medium chip to the glaze on lower edge, some surface scratching, transfer a little rubbed.

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting a lady and two gallants, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.471, p.21One chip to the glaze upper left, crazed below their waists, minor losses to glaze along the edges.

A pair of English blue and white delftware plates, probably London, circa 1750, decorated flowers and bamboo, dia.22.5cm, together with another blue and white delftware plate, attributed to Lambeth, circa 1740, in the same pattern, dia.23.5cm, and another, attributed to Liverpool, circa 1780, in the same pattern, dia.24cm (4) Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, B.136, p.182

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting the fox and the stork, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.494, p.525A little paler than the previous lot, it has been in half and restored, various minor chips to the glaze around the edge have been restored.

A Liverpool delftware tile, Sadler and Green, circa 1770, depicting an allegorical scene, 12.5 x 12.5cm Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, N.459-502, p.518A little less bold in the transfer, lower right corner has been snapped off and re-attached, some noticeable nibbles to the edges.

A Liverpool blue and white delftware charger, circa 1740, decorated with eastern figures within a landscape, dia.30cm, together with two similar Liverpool blue and white delftware plates, circa 1740, dia.21.5cm (2) Reference: Archer M (1997) Delftware, B.209, p.212