| Description
| Large plate or Ashet. Medium size, rectangular, blue and white transfer 'British & Foreign Birds', J & M P B & Co. Crazed, discoloured and chipped. Made by Bells of Glasgow. Described in copy purchase invoice and museum paper catalogue as an "Ashet".
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). |
