1st item: "Gables Farm" oblong form teapot by William Adams (British, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, active ca. 1769-1830). Vignettes to body depicting three children in a small boat on a body of water before Gables Farm, surrounded by trees and foliage extending to spout and lid, with guilloche pattern to rim, lid, and handle. Unmarked, numerals to underside of lid. 6 7/8" H x 12" W x 5 1/2" D. 2nd item: "The Meeting of Sancho and Dapple" plate from the Don Quixote Series, attributed to James and Ralph Clews (British, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, active ca. 1818-36). Central vignette depicts the scene from the book by Miguel de Cervantes in which Sancho Panza, the "sidekick" of Don Quixote reunites with his beloved donkey, Dapple, surrounded by wide border with bead course and foliate decorations. Blue title to underside of base. 9" dia. 3rd item: "East View of La Grange: The Residence of the Marquis LaFayette" plate from the French Series, by Enoch Wood and Sons (British, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, active ca.1818-46). Central vignette depicts the east view of the country estate of the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Seine-et-Oise, France, surrounded by a wide border with foliate decorations. Blue title with impressed Enoch Wood and Sons mark with four additional labels, including a Christie's East auction label, to underside of base. 9 1/4" dia. 4th item: "Landing of Gen LaFayette At Castle Garden, New York, 16th August 1824" plate by James and Ralph Clews. Central vignette depicting General Lafayette's return to America in 1824, surrounded by a wide border with foliate decorations and bead course trim to slightly scalloped rim. Impressed Clews mark with H.A. Eberhardt and Son, Art and China Restorers, Philadelphia, PA label and blue "A" mark to underside of base. 10 1/8" dia. 5th item: "Wistow Hall, Leicestershire" from the Foliage Border Series possibly by John Hall and Sons (British, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, active ca.1822-32). Central scene depicts two women and a man standing on the opposite shore from Wistow Hall, surrounded by a wide foliate border, with a circular trim to slightly scalloped rim. Blue title, with blue circular mark, and three labels, including one Christie's East auction label, to underside of base and rim. 8 5/8" dia. 6th item: Scene from "An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of England to the Emperor of China" from the Weeping Willow Border series by James and Ralph Clews. Central scene depicts three men standing or sitting on a hillside overlooking a small village with a pagoda and buildings with arched roofs situated on an island by a lake, a boat visible in the water, additional buildings on islands visible in the background, surrounded by a foliate border with willow trees and a geometric trim to the scalloped rim. Impressed Clews mark to underside of base. 8" dia. 7th-8th items: Pair of matching plates by an unknown maker. Central vignettes depicting a young shepherd boy tending to his sheep, two cattle and two figures visible among the ruins of a church or abbey in the background, surrounded by a wide border with vignettes of maritime scenes and houses interspersed with scrolling foliate decorations to the scalloped rim. Unmarked. 10" dia. All items 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Pia Stratton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Items with crazing, some scattered fleabites. 4th item: Old, professionally restored approximately 8" break to one side of plate, primarily visible from underside of base.