| Description
| China plate or dish. White, glazed, rectangular plate with multi-coloured oriental scene in centre and oriental floral design around border. On base: J & M P B & Co TRADE MARK TAMERLANE. Plate made by the Glasgow Pottery of J. and M.P. Bell in the pattern Tamerlane or Tamerlaine. Mark appears to indicate that plate was made in 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). |
