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