Two delftware plates with powder manganese grounds, circa 1750
One Bristol or possibly Wincanton with a central flower basket in red, the border with reserves of carnations and fleur-de-lys, 22.4cm diam, the other with an octagonal landscape panel in blue, the powdered manganese ground with sgraffito ornament, 22.2cm diam (2)
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A matching plate in manganese and red is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), fig. 15.45. Another is shown by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (2013), fig. B39. Powdered manganese grounds have long been associated with Wincanton though a similar use of manganese was clearly popular in London, where flower baskets in red were a feature used at the Vauxhall pottery. In his 2007 Sampson and Horne exhibition catalogue, fig.39B, Jonathan Horne published a set of plates in the same colouring that had been found in the attic of Yarlington House, near to Wincanton.