1271

1271m

Dish — CRC# 1271

Description
A rare Bristol square dessert dish, painted in coloured enamels with a flower spray and scattered flowers, the puce and blue interlocked border with gilt flower head medallions, and suspending swags of flowers and leaves, gilt dentil rim, circa 1775, blue painted X mark and letter b in gilt. See Albert Amor, The Alfred Trapnell Collection, 1912, numbers 170-181 for a part dessert service in this pattern, but not including the square dishes. A pair of Bristol shell-shaped dishes in this pattern was exhibited Albert Amor, the Vanessa Stevenson Collection, 2021, number 45
Service
Double ribbon
Size
19cm wide, 4.5cm high
Condition
Perfect
Mark
Blue Xb
Mark Group
X
Decorator
b
Decorator (Blue or Gilt)
Gilt
Labels
Roderick Jellicoe
Historic Provenance
With Roderick Jellicoe; Creed Collection
CRC#
1271
Type
Dish

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