| Description
| Ceramic, toddy bowl. White with lustre glaze. Circular with foot. Transfer printed pattern in dark blue with hand painting on top. Bowl is decorated inside and out with pattern of roundel containing moth and "butterfly" with grasses, against clumps of flowers and a band of pattern. Banded design around foot. Bowl is made by Bell's Pottery.
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). |
