A rare Bristol shell shaped sweetmeat dish

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

Provenance; The Alfred Trapnell Collection 
​​​​​​                      Creed Collection

See Albert Amor, The Alfred Trapnell Collection, 1912, numbers 74, for a pair of Bristol dishes of this form 

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