| Description
| Ceramic plate (earthenware) commemorating the opening of the Chapel Street, Rutherglen, branch of the Avonbank Co-operative Society, 23 December 1905. Plate has embossed bell shape on base, showing was manufactured by J & M P Bell 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). |
