| Description
| Deep soup tureen with lid and 2 handles, on a circular pedestal foot. Transfer printed blue on white scene with renaissance-style figures at a lake with buildings. Band of decoration inside. Stamped on base with pattern and maker name: ITALIAN LAKES, J & M P B & Co. Made by Bell's Glasgow. Lid and tureen 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). |
