AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE MANGANESE-GROUND PLATE CIRCA 1740-45 |

London or Bristol, painted in the center in blue with two Chinoiserie figures at a table on a lakeside pavilion reserved within a scalloped panel, the rim with three fish.

Price Glover Collection, Christie's, London, June 14, 1988, lot 16
Jonathan Horne, London, May, 1998, bearing label
Vogel Collection no. 639

In overall good appearance. There are two shallow rim chips, located at 2 and 4 o'clock. Some typical minor glaze nibbling along the rim edge.
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The central scene appears on a manganese plate inscribed with initials 'C' over 'S M' and dated 1741, see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin-Glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, p.109, fig.477. A dish with the same scene but with four fish reserved on a manganese ground is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 248, no. 15.42. A comparable dish painted with blue fish against a manganese ground was in the Longridge Collection, sold Christie's, London, January 24, 2011, lot 154.