Among the best performers at the Olive collection of early British ceramics, metalwork, furniture and treen sold at Bonhams on January 31 was this large English delftware tankard, writes Roland Arkell.
Finely painted in blue with a continuous hunting scene and dated to the base 1766, it is illustrated by Lipski and Archer in Dated English Delftware (1984) and sold as part of the Rous Lench Court collection in 1990.