| Description
| Covered, round dish and lid, white with black floral design. Dish is shallow, more like a covered serving plate. On pedestal foot. Printed on base: VINE BORDER J & M P B & Co. Pattern name is Vine Border, made by Bell's Pottery. Plate and lid numbered individually.
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). |
