A rare Bristol square dessert dish

A rare Bristol square dessert dish, painted in coloured enamels with a flower spray and scattered flowers, the puce and blue interlinked border with gilt flower head medallions, and suspending swags of flowers and leaves, gilt dentil rim, 7 1/4" square, circa 177, blue painted X mark and numeral 6 in gilt

Provenance; With Roderick Jellicoe
                     Creed Collection

See Albert Amor, The Trapnell Collection, 1912, numbers 170-181, for a part dessert service in this pattern, but not including square dishes

A pair of Bristol shell shaped dishes in this pattern was exhibited Albert Amor, The Vanessa Stevenson Collection, 2021, number 45

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