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Spode Porcelain Botanical Dessert Dish, Spiderwort, After Curtis, Circa 1810-182

$1,500

£1,121.62

€1,309.99

CA$2,107.50

A$2,134.78

CHF 1,225.75

MX$25,883.62

NOK 14,223.24

SEK 14,477.63

DKK 9,793.53

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Spode Porcelain Botanical Dessert Dish, Spiderwort, After Curtis, Circa 1810-1820 This Spode porcelain dessert dish is of deep, shaped oval form drawn to a point at either end, each point with a molded shell handle gilded and painted with a white enameled anthemion, the scalloped rim lined in gilt. The well is painted with a single named botanical specimen, the spiderwort, a spray of deep purple-magenta flowers with a cluster of buds on curling red stalks between two long striated leaves, the whole placed on the plain white ground with nothing else to compete with it. The reverse is titled Spiderwort in iron-red script above the painted mark SPODE. The subject is the Virginian spiderwort, Tradescantia virginica, figured in the third volume of William Curtis’s Botanical Magazine as plate 105 (1789), the publication from which Spode’s botanical painters took their named specimens. The dish comes from the same named-specimen dessert service as other Spode botanical dishes in stock, each piece painted with a different plant and titled on the reverse. Spode’s botanical services of the early nineteenth century answered the same passion for horticulture that filled Regency conservatories and print rooms. The named specimens were taken from The Botanical Magazine, founded by William Curtis in 1787 as the first journal to publish hand-colored plates of new and rare garden plants, and the factory’s painters translated the flat engravings into porcelain with remarkable fidelity, titling each piece on the reverse so that the service doubled as a botany lesson at dessert. A dish for a collector of Spode or of botanical porcelain, for hanging in a group of named specimens, or for actual use at a dessert table that takes its flowers seriously. Dimensions Length: 11.125 inches (28.3 cm) Width: 7.75 inches (19.7 cm) Height: 2.25 inches (5.7 cm) Provenance Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge

Creator:
Spode (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)Width: 11.13 in (28.28 cm)Depth: 7.24 in (18.39 cm)
Style:
Regency (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
Early 19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1810
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Excellent. Wear consistent with age and use; the enamels vivid and the gilding well preserved with minimal wear.
Seller Location:
Downingtown, PA
Reference Number:
Seller: NY10438A-NMRrrx1stDibs: LU861038419102

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Spode

Spode is one of the oldest and most distinguished of the great pottery companies of Staffordshire, the time-honored home of English ceramics. The firm’s blue and white bone china transferware is a timeless classic. Spode dishes compose the sort of elegant dinner service that most of us envision on a traditional holiday table.

The company was established in 1770 in Stoke-on-Trent by Josiah Spode, a friend and neighbor of another estimable English ceramist, Josiah Wedgwood. The Wedgwood firm first came to prominence for its tableware, which quickly gained favor in aristocratic households throughout Britain and Europe.

Spode was particularly known for two technical achievements in the firm’s early decades. The first was to develop a standard formula for the making of bone china — a type of porcelain (made with a mixture of bone ash, minerals and clay) that is dazzlingly white and so strong it can be used to create very thin translucent plates and vessels.

The other advancement was to perfect the making of transferware. That process involves the transfer of pictorial images inked on tissue paper — such as the garden scenery in the famous Willow dish patterns — onto ceramics that are then sealed with a glaze.

From the 1820s onward, Spode enjoyed tremendous success both in Britain and elsewhere owing to the beauty and vitality of its decorative imagery. By some counts, Spode created more than 40,000 patterns in the 19th century.

In 1833, following the sudden death of Josiah Spode III, business partner W. T. Copeland took over the company and changed its name to Copeland Spode (it later changed again, this time to W. T. Copeland and Sons). Collectors regard Copeland-marked pieces as Spode china. The Spode brand was revived in 1970.

Many favorite Spode patterns — among them Blue Italian, Indian Tree, Greek and Woodland — date to the company’s early years. Spode’s most popular pattern, Christmas Tree, was introduced in 1938.

Prices for antique and vintage Spode china vary widely, based on the size of the service, its condition and the pattern. An antique dinner service for 12 people or more, in good repair and complete with cups and serving dishes, will generally cost between $10,000 and $20,000. Such Spode services become heirlooms — a proud and timeless addition to a family’s table. And as you will see on these pages, Spode’s rich and varied wares offer a visual feast in and of themselves.

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By H&R Daniel

Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire

This is a very high quality, finely hand painted botanical plate, that we attribute to H & R Daniel or Samuel Alcock, Staffordshire Potteries, England and dating to the early 19th ce...

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