| Description
| Soup Tureen, two handles, in white china with Old Willow pattern in dark blue transfer printed. Shaped as a rectangle with rounded corners with small handles. Blue & white border round inside of dish at rim - pattern blurred. Also along base of foot. Blue pattern on handles. Lid is missing. On base : Rectangular white sticker with blue border - handwritten in black ink : 51. marked for Bell's pottery on base.
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). |
