1581

Dish — CRC# 1581

Description
A rare Bristol scallop shell shaped sweetmeat dish, the interior painted in coloured enamels with a spray of flowers and leaves, the triform base finely modelled with brightly coloured naturalistic sea shells, coral and seaweed, the rim with a puce band, 6" wide, circa 1774-75, no mark. See Albert Amor, The Alfred Trapnell Collection, 1912, numbers 74, for a pair of Bristol dishes of this form
Mark
No mark
Mark Group
No mark
Decorator
No mark
Maker
Cookworthy
Historic Provenance
The Alfred Trapnell Collection; Creed Collection
CRC#
1581
Type
Dish