Tazza or comport with raised work, shells

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Tazza or comport, decorated with raised work shells and seaweed above a rocky base; large limpet or scallop shell at top forming a holder. (A real shell, to the right of the limpet shell on the rock, has been carefully added to the decoration in recent times.)

Mark: Impressed SALOPIAN mark
Height: 140mm / 5.5in
Date: c.1880–1900

Provenance: Private collection, UK

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