A Bristol delftware large plate, circa 1750-60
Probably Redcliff Back pottery of Richard Frank, painted in blue with an extensive landscape with two ladies in long, wide skirts walking beside tall 'sponged trees', a house at the right hand side, the scene filling the entire plate without a border, 33.6cm diam
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A plate from the Willett Collection, signed 'Bowen Fecit' was lost in the Alexandra Palace fire but as a result the name of Bowen is forever linked to a style of painting with European landscapes and sponged trees. Five separate plates and two flower bricks, all with the same scene as the present lot are illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), figs 18.1-18.7. Another plate is illustrated by Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery (1968), pl.42, fig.80.