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Circa 1760, either Mary Delamain or William Delamain & Samuel Wilkinson The three tiers of shallow scallop-shells painted with flowers and supported by narrow arches applied with stud ornament about a central collumn moulded with stylised shells, surmounted by a fluted bowl similarly painted with flowers, the lowest tier applied with three birds perched on whelks between the shells, on a circular spreading base applied and moulded with blue shells and pierced with four arches surrounded by moss and seaweed (one large and one medium sized scallop-shell restored, the top bowl a restored replacement, one bird a restored replacement, some minor chipping to extremities) 161/4 in. (41 cm.) high PROVENANCE Louis L. Lipski, sale Sotheby's, 10th March 1981, lot 139. LITERATURE Peter Francis, Irish Delftware (2000), p.121, fig.146. NOTES See also Michael Archer, op. cit. (London, 1997), p.332, G.13, pl.212 for a similarly modelled sweetmeat-stand, decorated in colours, in the collection of The Victoria & Albert Museum; and see Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part I (London, 1981), no. 14, for a similar, smaller blue and white version.