A London delft tile, circa 1740, painted in blue with an urn or vase of flowers, the corners with stylized foliate detail, approx 12.8cm square, together with four other delftware tiles, including a biblical example depicting Mose's rod turning into a snake, and one painted in manganese with a Tudor rose (faults). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.