A RARE ENGLISH DELFTWARE MANGANESE-GROUND PLATE CIRCA 1750 |

reserved in the center with a circular panel painted in blue with a fisherman seated beneath a grapevine beside a river, the rim with a border of four foliate motifs.

Garry Atkins, London, March, 1998, bearing label
Vogel Collection no. 637

The plate has some a rim chip at 5 o'clock and 11 o'clock, as well as some smaller nibble chips along the rim. There are some scattered fine glaze crazing cracks.
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The pattern appears to be unrecorded in the literature.