The hors d'oeuvres tray probably Lambeth High Street, William Griffith, finely moulded with six individual compartments, painted in blue with a repeating floral spray and a diaper border at the rim, raised on five small pad feet, 20.8cm wide, the pickle dish and salts Dutch or possibly English, the dish of fleur-de-lys shape painted in blue with a formal flower basket and scrollwork border, 8.6cm wide, marked with numerals 1 and 2, the salts of shallow, fluted hexafoil shape on three scroll feet, painted in blue with flowering plants, with floral panel and diaper borders, 8cm wide (4)

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Provenance
With Mark and Marjorie Allen (salts)
Benjamin F Edwards III Collection, Christie's sale, 26 January 2010, lot 368 (salts)
Pelham Olive Collection

Two examples of the same shape of hors d'oeuvres tray from the Mellor Bequest in the Victoria and Albert Museum are illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), p.331, figs.G.10 and G.11.

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