| Description
| White, circular, glazed china plate with multi-coloured oriental scenes, orange rim. Transfer printed with hand painted colour. Shows two figures in an oriental landscape. On base: J & M. P. B. & Co TAMERLANE. Plate made by the Glasgow Pottery of J. and M.P. Bell in the pattern Tamerlane (or Tamerlaine). The mark on the base of the plate appears to indicate that it was made during the 1870s.
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). |
