Description:

Small rectangular dish or stand, Turner's patent ironstone china with underglaze blue printed decoration. The design is known as House on the Bridge and depicts an exotic scene with a house at the extreme right of a three-arched bridge.  It is impressed on the reverse TURNER MIST SOLE AGENT indicating that this was made by Turner for retail by James Mist of London.  Mist was in various partnerships until he was sole owner of the company between 1811-1818.  The piece must have been produced for Mist during those years and consequently it must have been made by William Turner who had started up in business in 1806 after the partnership with his brother ceased on their bankruptcy that year. The pattern is also known in a version produced by Charles Heathcote & Co. who had a factory near to Turner and appears to have acquired a number of his copper plates.