AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE MANGANESE-GROUND PLATE WITH FISHERMAN CIRCA 1750 |

probably London, with a cartouche shaped panel at the center painted in colors with a standing figure beside a fence and rockwork issuing flowers, with four small panels reserving sprigs at the rim.

Garry Atkins, London, bearing label

In good appearance and condition. There are a few scattered shallow rim chips and some fine glaze crazing cracks to both sides.
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The same pattern appears on a manganese-powdered ground lobed plate in the Glaisher Collection, illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 106, B.43; a variation of the Glaisher plate but with a blue-powdered ground is illustrated by Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Warren Hall Collection, London, 1968, p. 162, pl. 82, who notes round plates in this pattern with both blue and manganese powdered grounds were in the Lipski Collection. The brilliant colors and combined powdered-ground are typical of London products of the mid-18th century.