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Fish dish with strainer (detail)

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made in Glasgow

Fish dish with strainer (detail)
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This detail shows the trademark of the Glasgow potters, J. & M.P. Bell & Company. The mark is on the underside of a cream-glazed earthenware fish dish with strainer, dating from between 1842 and 1880.

There were many variations in Bell's marks. This one consists of two sprays of holly with the pattern name 'HOLLY/WREATH' in between. Underneath are the initials 'J. & M.P.B. & CO'.

By the middle of the 19th century, the area of Glasgow and the Clyde basin was undoubtedly the heartland of the Scottish pottery industry, with several of the biggest firms such as J. & M. P. Bell and Robert Cochran's Verreville and Britannia potteries.

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