A superb Champion's baluster tankard, decorated with entensive boquets of flowers below elaborate scrolled gilt borders. Bristol poreclain at its best! It is marked with an X and its height is 6 inches (15.2 cm). See the Trapnell collection (number 353) for a similar tankard. It was exhibited by Simon Spero in October 2002.
A coffee mug, c1775-80. Height 5.2 inches (13.1 cm). Decorated with a cabbage rose and floral sprays. It has a brown line around the rim. This form of mug is more bulbous in shape than the Cookworthy period mugs. Marked with crossed swords.
Bristol mug 1775-81. The height is 3.8 inches. Marked with an X. Formerly in the possesion of a branch of the Fry family.
A cabinet cup and saucer c1775-80. Height ot the cup is 2.7 inches (7 cm). Decorated mainly in gold. Two of the gold bands are interlaced with lake Both are marked with an X in lake, and a 1 in gold. There is at least one other surviving cup, with the same mark. Similar decoration can be found on a tea pot in the Trapnell collection (number 208), also Bristol Bicentenary (number 176). Formerly in the Peter Stephens collecion (143)..
A cabinet cup and saucer c1775-80. The diameter of the saucer is 5.7 inches (14.5 cm). The cup has a double scroll handle, moulded with husks, and is decorated with broad bands of pink scale pattern edged with gilt lines and arunning line of green husks, plus a gilt dentil border at the rims. The cup is marked with an X and the saucer with X4. See the Trapnell collection (number 27). Formerly in the Peter Stephens collecion (146).
A cabinet saucer c1775-90. The diameter is 5.1 inches (13 cm). It is marked with X, 1 and a dot (the 1 and the dot being in gold).
A cabinet cup and saucer c1775-80. The diameter of the saucer is 5.2 inches (13.2 cm). Both are marked with an X in blue, plus 1 and a dot in gold. See the Trapnell collection (number 485). A copy of this pattern was produced c1880, possibly by Coalport. Even the marks (X and 1) are almost an exact copy. However it was made of bone china, and is therefore thinner and more translucent, also the gilding is dull in color. The reproduction may have been sold in Bristol by S J Kepple. The one shown here is genuine.
A Bristol christening mug, c1775. It is marked with an X in blue and 10 in gold. The height is 2.8 inches (7.1 cm).