Saucer — CRC# 1605

Description

A rare Bristol saucer, very finely moulded with spirally fluted bands, and painted in coloured enamels with scattered flowers and leaves, within moulded borders with gilt line rims, circa 1772, blue painted X marks and numeral 7 in gilt

Mark

Blue X7 gilt

Mark Group

X

Decorator

7

Decorator (Blue or Gilt)

Gilt

Historic Provenance

E L Bristoll Collection; See Albert Amor, The Alfred Trapnell Collection, 1912, number 326, for a similar tea bowl and saucer of this rare form

CRC#

1605

Type

Saucer