1527

Tea bowl — CRC# 1527

Description
A rare Bristol tea bowl, from the Brice Service, with the large initial 'B' in tiny blue and gilt flowers, within gilt dentil borders, circa 1775, blue painted X marks and the tea bowl with numeral 3 in gilt. Edward Brice was one of Richard Champion's original partners, and this service remained with his family until 1882
Service
Brice
Date
1773-78
Condition
Perfect
Mark
Blue X3 gilt
Mark Group
X
Decorator
3
Decorator (Blue or Gilt)
Gilt
Maker
Champion
Historic Provenance
Alfred Trapnell Collection; Geoffrey Phillips Collection; Mackenna Collection; Peter Stephens Collection; Fulford Collection; Creed Collection. Illustrated: F S Mackenna, Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, figures 101 and 102. Exhibited; Albert Amor, The Peter Stephens Collection, 1978, number 45
CRC#
1527
Type
Tea bowl

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