| Description
| Shallow square dish, white with stylised red blue and green oriental floral design. Blue transfer print of outline with colour hand painted. Printed on base: LOO CHOO J & M P B & Co. Pattern name Loo Choo, made by Bell's of Glasgow.
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). |
