| Description
| Scottish. Decorated inside and out with a pattern featuring Robert Burns, transfer printed and over painted in red, blue, green and yellow. A punch bowl. Marked on base with pattern name 'BURNS' and J & M P Bell. This pattern can be identified as Burns III, produced between 1881 and 1912 by the Glasgow Pottery of John and Matthew Perston Bell & Company.
Bell’s Pottery was established by the Bell brothers in 1841, beside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. They made transfer-printed white earthenware but soon expanded into china and parianware. Bell’s produced a vast range of transfer printed china which became extremely popular with middle class families from the West of Scotland. Equally, wares were exported worldwide. The Pottery was in production until 1912. Items may be marked J. & M.P.B. & Co., J. & M.P.Bell & Co, JB (inside a bell, impressed), J. & M.P.B. & Co.Ld. or B (inside a bell). |
