| Description
| Small oval dish, handle one end, white centre, classical style border in turquoise and brown. Transfer print with hand painting. Made by J & M P B & Co Glasgow (c. 1881 - 1928) - stamped on base for Bell's with 'GRANITE' impressed. Accession register describes item as a "confection dish."
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). |
