Huge Pountney & Allies Bristol Views Series Punch Bowl. Circa 1830

Huge Pountney & Allies 'Bristol Views Series' pottery punch bowl. Extremley rare. Circa 1830. Provenance: Private Collection, Bristol, UK.

Large Punch-Bowl of lead-glazed earthenware of significant proportions. Transfer-printed in blue with a view of the port of Bristol on the bottom. Both inside and outside there is a wide border of flowers with festoons of laurel on a blue ground. This is an extremely rare Pountney & Allies 'Bristol Views Series' large bowl, circa 1830, large blue and white transfer printed dish with a view of Bristol harbour, printed 'Bristol' mark to base on a ribbon, and impressed mark '4'.

The view on this fine and rare example depicts Bristol Harbour with the ship David, which belonged to the pottery proprietors. According to Pountney, Old Bristol Potteries (1920) "she was used for bringing to the pottery the Welsh coal, the Cornish and Dorsetshire (Poole) clay, and for taking pottery goods to Wales and South of England", See Coysh and Henrywood, Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880 (1982), page 56.

Identical Item in V&A Museum Accession Number 3146-1901 Jermyn Street Collection (slightly small diameter of 30.8cm).

Condition: Number of long cracks and some spalling to surface. Crazing, stains, cracks and chips throughout. No restoration and stable.

Dimensions:

Height = 13 cm

Diameter = 35 cm