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
Date
1773-78
Size
19cm wide, 4.5cm high
Condition
Perfect
Mark
Blue Xb
Mark Group
X
Decorator
b
Decorator (Blue or Gilt)
Gilt
Maker
Champion
Labels
Roderick Jellicoe
Historic Provenance
With Roderick Jellicoe; Creed Collection
CRC#
1271
Type
Dish

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