tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23424429784242206282024-03-13T16:13:23.994+00:00Spode HistoryAll about the world famous pottery manufacturerPam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-81421862854163348392021-06-04T14:08:00.011+01:002022-05-09T08:55:16.090+01:00Spode & the Royal Pavilion (Part 3): Jars for the King<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfxMNoskgQBkCwFSEcSKB4J09G5RsxhHhbF2CdtQCyH4u8jnqB5LYp1LD-0VxznjTUQ9e5IVghPBEH_vh6Z_tUpJLw_mc0SpWeqzBSoaxprAx-eaIsuopMC1ikprzoQCihmhrYVmRxCc/s979/Brighton_Banqueting_Room_Nash_edited+wikicommons+2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="979" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfxMNoskgQBkCwFSEcSKB4J09G5RsxhHhbF2CdtQCyH4u8jnqB5LYp1LD-0VxznjTUQ9e5IVghPBEH_vh6Z_tUpJLw_mc0SpWeqzBSoaxprAx-eaIsuopMC1ikprzoQCihmhrYVmRxCc/s320/Brighton_Banqueting_Room_Nash_edited+wikicommons+2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><u style="background-color: white;">'Jars for the King'</u></b></span></div><div>This blogpost follows 'Spode & the Royal Pavilion...' (<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-brighton-pavilion-be-amazed.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> & <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/spode-royal-pavilion-part-2-porcelain.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>). In the final part of this mini-series, I am paying homage to my colleague and Spode mentor Robert Copeland (1925-2010). Much of what follows is from his research* which is how I became interested in Spode's Royal Pavilion connections in the first place. I also love that his huge knowledge and experience of ceramic technology helped to unravel some of the mystery of the making of these jars.</div><div><br /></div><div>The top image shows 'The Banqueting Room at the Royal Pavilion'** in 1826. You need to peer carefully to see the Spode connection! The rich blue and very tall oil-fuelled torchères, or standard lamps, down each side of the Banqueting Room had large components made by Spode. I'll help you out below, with a close up of 4 of the 8 made***</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-s4q-5nY-uEWzlicffgNhJY1vKlPysAEAv_fif0n0KL19HTfAmXXwD8mjD7ok-ek7x_OXUbeIkrzICF4dIi3tlv3FErFH81-jG6fiJS40TVqQ39NCuUVYZFaTAbBUJmOdCVWQrnJNu8/s550/Twitter+Brighton+Museum_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-s4q-5nY-uEWzlicffgNhJY1vKlPysAEAv_fif0n0KL19HTfAmXXwD8mjD7ok-ek7x_OXUbeIkrzICF4dIi3tlv3FErFH81-jG6fiJS40TVqQ39NCuUVYZFaTAbBUJmOdCVWQrnJNu8/s320/Twitter+Brighton+Museum_cr.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four of the torch<span style="text-align: left;">è</span>res</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOQpllikDnraKCJVcMgVWdhVODYBpowIQCiise8JiOi1triROUJeB_iivRKcHMVS5nc4CCbAhDZ-cjirgVwJDZQe9PcNcrGtqlD9VIJ0fyoxnqtnIJ6cGGhA9Dup-4H7CwXZEQAL5tlo/s386/Brighton_Banqueting_Room_Nash_edited+wikicommons+2021+%25282%2529.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="163" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOQpllikDnraKCJVcMgVWdhVODYBpowIQCiise8JiOi1triROUJeB_iivRKcHMVS5nc4CCbAhDZ-cjirgVwJDZQe9PcNcrGtqlD9VIJ0fyoxnqtnIJ6cGGhA9Dup-4H7CwXZEQAL5tlo/s320/Brighton_Banqueting_Room_Nash_edited+wikicommons+2021+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div>The above image shows detail from Nash's illustration giving a feel of the size of the torchères. Compare the men standing by them.</div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflADsvoV7yrVs2zOXtpwS5s8HLGnAa-XS1bmuqKvl6jGRN5GdN0JMOMg36otkzPgwAb3tT4ykXBhPE4UJkQzILvnVz3lua87b4FVuAYa6MBEnWh3_MPvdSOVyAEhR1Wvi5mQPX2IPS_4/s960/Torcheres+Spode+Pottery+Pioneers.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflADsvoV7yrVs2zOXtpwS5s8HLGnAa-XS1bmuqKvl6jGRN5GdN0JMOMg36otkzPgwAb3tT4ykXBhPE4UJkQzILvnVz3lua87b4FVuAYa6MBEnWh3_MPvdSOVyAEhR1Wvi5mQPX2IPS_4/s320/Torcheres+Spode+Pottery+Pioneers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode's making record of the Jars (detail) and how they fit in the torch<span style="text-align: left;">è</span>res</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>Jar is an old word for vase. In this case a 'jar' was a fundamental part of the each torchère. The image above shows the 'Upright Jar' with some of its making instructions from a shape book of c1820. Another document records that the jars were made in April 1818.</div><div><br /></div><div>The shape book includes the note 'this jar is thrown in 4 parts'. **** The measurements you can see are instructions for the thrower. Also included were measurements for the turner, which were smaller, and the finished article would be smaller still after shrinkage in firing. All were carefully calculated by those expert potters. The record also notes that the jars were made from Spode's <a href="https://tldrify.com/140z" target="_blank">stone china</a>.***** </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Robert Copeland explained that:</div><div> 'Down one side of the room [Banqueting Room] the torchères were fitted into long side tables, whilst on the window side of the room they were free-standing; these were further embellished with carved and gilt wood dolphins at the base. These torchères consist of circular drums of wood carrying tall jars richly mounted in ormolu borders, top and bottoms with dragon handles, the tails supporting a ground glass painted lotus; the lamps are 9ft 9in high [approx. 300cm]. The jars and the drums are royal blue in colour and it is about the jars that I [Copeland] am interested because they were made by Spode, who not only held the Prince's Warrant but was also regarded as one of the leading porcelain manufacturers in Europe at the time.</div><div> ...visitors to the Royal Pavilion may be overawed by the magnificence of the Banqueting Room and its <a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/the-banqueting-room/" target="_blank">extraordinary decoration</a>. They may note the unusual lamps. But a potter will marvel not only at the size of the jars, which are 36 inches [approx. 91.5cm] tall, but especially at the evenness of blue over the whole surface. Cobalt blue tends to 'run' in the glaze and it is exceptionally difficult to apply evenly by hand-held brush. <a href="https://tldrify.com/1412" target="_blank">Ground-laying</a> was the method which would have been the most likely to yield an even distribution but how did Josiah Spode II's craftsmen solve the problem?'</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Following a chance find at Spode of a copper [plate] 'stipple punched all over, i.e. covered neatly with dots' ******, Copeland was curious as to its use. As he remarked it would have made a very dull pattern! It reminded him of a '<a href="https://tldrify.com/14dv" target="_blank">sheet pattern</a>' and the closest I can find of something similarly dull is an engraved <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/spode-and-printingand-hogarth.html?showComment=1320919269970" target="_blank">apprentice copper</a>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIzKBqKZTR1WCjZ4dPGU35-IMXZvSLjmC42FLOGuBjIyLNJubHmlV1E-31SnaaH_y0PHZw-4aMqVKyk4K22WoX6W9HquG5N1UZGTt_EY7w2Mo7MxJtpdUao1afR6lQzckFJSbvPsEypc/s800/Apprentice+copper+01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIzKBqKZTR1WCjZ4dPGU35-IMXZvSLjmC42FLOGuBjIyLNJubHmlV1E-31SnaaH_y0PHZw-4aMqVKyk4K22WoX6W9HquG5N1UZGTt_EY7w2Mo7MxJtpdUao1afR6lQzckFJSbvPsEypc/s320/Apprentice+copper+01.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apprentice copper plate (detail)</td></tr></tbody></table><div>In his article Copeland states that he later found a reference in an old recipe book.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMifao1mRfdNTwblu82OFedt0k_UltsqbhH_Ww3zapwImH0b412a79kbkRqLgBilNdQiSQdHQwiGti27HBS9VKe-FZgLAfLwoL-4yonfx4Yr66cG9n43QgJC5OLbkTsFeMJApihK5NN8/s465/Grocott+MADE+1818+pgs+056+057+small+Jars+for+the+King+%25283%2529.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMifao1mRfdNTwblu82OFedt0k_UltsqbhH_Ww3zapwImH0b412a79kbkRqLgBilNdQiSQdHQwiGti27HBS9VKe-FZgLAfLwoL-4yonfx4Yr66cG9n43QgJC5OLbkTsFeMJApihK5NN8/s320/Grocott+MADE+1818+pgs+056+057+small+Jars+for+the+King+%25283%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">It reads:</div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Blue for Printing the upright</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Jars 36in made Apl 1818</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for the King</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>3 Banding Blue & 2 White Lead</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for the first time over, when</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Hardened printed again with</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Common Blue</i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div><span><br /></span>Many, many different blues******* were used at Spode</div><div><br /></div><div>Copeland continued:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span> 'I believe</span> that the stipple sheet copper was used to apply an even coating of blue to these great jars. The formula for Banding Blue was: <i style="text-align: center;">10lb Best Blue Calx, </i><i style="text-align: center;">2lb Flint Glass.</i><span style="text-align: center;"> Banding Blue was for the blue bands [on a pot] normally applied by pencil - the potters' name for a </span>brush. This blue was also used for groundlaying. After transferring the stipple sheet the jars were <a href="https://tldrify.com/146l" target="_blank">hardened on</a> in a kiln at about 650ᵒC. This firing was to fasten the colour to the pot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Then they were printed again with Common Blue (<i>10lb of Blue Calx, 18lb Cornwall Stone</i>), when the transfer paper could be placed over any joins which showed from the first printing. They [the jars] would have to be hardened on again before the glaze was applied and then fired at about 1050ᵒC to develop the rich blue colour of Cobalt silicate.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> After this some gilded ornamentation was added at the base to link up with the ormolu mounts. This gilding would require a decorating kiln fire of about 720</span>ᵒC followed by <a href="https://bottleoven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">burnishing </a>to render the gold shiny'.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUr7v6VbMfxg2o6iicyY3oikVqNyyCONHNOKPcfM9q4vVlf53e6E1QxbF03CYl-r-lzHlQwWHmqtahAZ3pp20AVBd-9_sY2iDN4N6ZG0BNzWIDchUyGmAXdfyjyk6mJEm_HWa12fh6V1k/s1678/Burnishing+tools+Staffs+Past+Track+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUr7v6VbMfxg2o6iicyY3oikVqNyyCONHNOKPcfM9q4vVlf53e6E1QxbF03CYl-r-lzHlQwWHmqtahAZ3pp20AVBd-9_sY2iDN4N6ZG0BNzWIDchUyGmAXdfyjyk6mJEm_HWa12fh6V1k/s320/Burnishing+tools+Staffs+Past+Track+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Search.aspx?PageIndex=1&SortOrder=2&KeyWord=burnishing%20tools" target="_blank">Burnishing tools can be seen at Staffordshire Past Track</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">For clarification, the 1050ᵒC firing was the <a href="https://tldrify.com/146o" target="_blank">glost firing</a>. In total, the jars had at least 5 firings - biscuit, 2 hardening on, glost and decorating kiln - all it <a href="https://bottleoven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">bottle ovens</a>].+</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhSiMpPpE9rYhk4SsQFo90sG5tm8VGxW5YHkwryxkBs2FDIcIcOYh6egcbRbm9MvnO33IV0Sq9Yhm98CWC4UbtGLxVY1gep7-pDCn_t3fwaU1Bf0PUpqs9bCxP459-5rT8uooyRl_acU/s978/Spode+factory+plate+01cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhSiMpPpE9rYhk4SsQFo90sG5tm8VGxW5YHkwryxkBs2FDIcIcOYh6egcbRbm9MvnO33IV0Sq9Yhm98CWC4UbtGLxVY1gep7-pDCn_t3fwaU1Bf0PUpqs9bCxP459-5rT8uooyRl_acU/s320/Spode+factory+plate+01cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/spode-and-bottle-ovens.html" target="_blank">Spode factory and bottle ovens c1800</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">Copeland then goes on to discuss the making of the jars:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> 'The shaping of the jars was by throwing in four parts which were then joined carefully by the thrower; later they were turned and, because of their great size, I suppose they would have been turned in an upright position [the norm would have been to turn objects in a horizontal position - see image below]. The exact measurements to be observed by the thrower and the turner are recorded in two Shape Books. One of these gives turner's measurements for two different bodies, one of which is marked S China [Stone China]'.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_ZEpZ1sgeQjmSSkANj3k4SbJ0kb36d8-6_gBxTLVJV5-Lyl35_AWU9I5k9CL5BxO-N_2x96IKEhJD6sED3b3TGkBpfpz8oohwo1vl5PpucYdecTIIkr3pG4h9qwlm_dQyuls0sPQe3A/s840/Never+Out+of+Fashion+10+pg+18+to+19_cr+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_ZEpZ1sgeQjmSSkANj3k4SbJ0kb36d8-6_gBxTLVJV5-Lyl35_AWU9I5k9CL5BxO-N_2x96IKEhJD6sED3b3TGkBpfpz8oohwo1vl5PpucYdecTIIkr3pG4h9qwlm_dQyuls0sPQe3A/s320/Never+Out+of+Fashion+10+pg+18+to+19_cr+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning a cup at Spode c1975</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;">Other parts of the t<span style="text-align: center;">orch</span><span>è</span><span style="text-align: center;">res </span>were made by other craftsmen including by <a href="https://tldrify.com/148l" target="_blank">Vulliamy </a>who also worked on the oil lamps and pagodas mentioned in my previous two posts.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These, then, are just some of the items made for the Royal Pavilion by Spode. Copeland mentions that Spode also supplied '4 oval blue china vases for celerets'. These measured approx. 82cm wide by 56cm high and 56cm across. They were ordered on 5th Jan 1822 according to Copeland citing The Royal Pavilion Requisitions Book. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5z7gNhIH3GXN7SnjMiXjvn2VItNu4DH3JsI7h6IF4IgUOaXfuuMFQe5JkCPTxbgCmwAQk-T8GHyO2SiCzHm1jxi3gjE-fgQQNTl1sXQYxnQxFLgAhAkpU1moyM6fxgGjOddeeAFQSjc/s1253/Jars+for+the+King+Brighton+history+05+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5z7gNhIH3GXN7SnjMiXjvn2VItNu4DH3JsI7h6IF4IgUOaXfuuMFQe5JkCPTxbgCmwAQk-T8GHyO2SiCzHm1jxi3gjE-fgQQNTl1sXQYxnQxFLgAhAkpU1moyM6fxgGjOddeeAFQSjc/s320/Jars+for+the+King+Brighton+history+05+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Oval blue china vase for celerets'</td></tr></tbody></table>Copeland also mentions Spode panels with painted flowers on an Imperial yellow ground set into wooden pedestals on which Chinese figures holding banners stood.<div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lTdbP-Rj3_Rhu0HIrds97v_wXQ3bFG4SFjp4vNOuhMMkF3_pn9cpXNJh81vzB7NFXm4KRQjTC_Yec0td7vz71Gg2Ni_sfeaXmJs8PSgcMjkf6NBh39wcTC5PXRw28GMvKnd8aM4PSXU/s1423/Jars+for+the+King+Brighton+history+06+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1423" data-original-width="660" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lTdbP-Rj3_Rhu0HIrds97v_wXQ3bFG4SFjp4vNOuhMMkF3_pn9cpXNJh81vzB7NFXm4KRQjTC_Yec0td7vz71Gg2Ni_sfeaXmJs8PSgcMjkf6NBh39wcTC5PXRw28GMvKnd8aM4PSXU/s320/Jars+for+the+King+Brighton+history+06+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode ceramic panels in wooden base</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>____________________</div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Acknowledgments and notes:</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Taken from my lecture 'The Josiah Spodes: Pottery Pioneers'</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">*My huge thanks to Robert Copeland (1925-2010) who sparked my interest in and researched and wrote about this subject sharing his knowledge with me. In particular his work on this subject around the 1970s/1980s, culminating in his article 'Jars for the King', published in the Spode Society's 'Recorder'. Although a member of the family who owned Spode, Copeland served 3 years 'at the bench' gaining experience of all the processes of ceramic manufacture on the factory floor. Later this gave him an advantage as a ceramic historian to understand the techniques of pottery production. I continue to be deeply grateful to Copeland who generously shared his Spode researches with me. We often did a swap and amalgamation of finds! He would be thrilled, I know, to be a part of the blogosphere. See below for a selection of his publications and also look at my booklist <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/booklist-for-spode-enthusiasts.html" target="_blank">HERE></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>In his article Copeland gives his thanks to Jessica Rutherford, then Principal Keeper at the Royal Pavilion. His references include:</div><div><br /></div><div>'The Making of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Designs and Drawings' by J. Morley, Sotheby, 1984</div><div><br /></div><div>'The Royal Pavilion, Brighton' by John Dinkel, Philip Wilson 1983</div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">** 'T</span>he Banqueting Room at the Royal Pavilion' from John Nash's Views of the Royal Pavilion 1826</div><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">*** @BrightonMuseums on Twitter; @brighton_museums on Instagram</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">****</span>The majority of the pieces in the Spode shape books of this period are for items solely made by throwing and in bone china. So when there is an exception to this a note is usually included. The technical details included are for the Thrower (measurements on the left-hand page) and for the Turner (measurements on the right-hand page). Shape books can be seen online at <a href="http://spodeceramics.com/pottery/ceramics/shape-book-index" target="_blank">Spode Exhibition Online</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>***** More on the previous blogpost - click <a href="https://tldrify.com/1410" target="_blank">here</a></div><div><br /></div><div>****** Pattern decoration could be applied by <a href="https://tldrify.com/1414" target="_blank">transfer printing</a> method using hand engraved copper plates. The copper plates were simply referred to as coppers at the Spode factory.</div><div><br /></div><div>******* For more on ceramic blues see: 'Spode's Willow Pattern & Other designs after the Chinese' 3rd edition, by Robert Copeland, Studio Vista, 1999 ISBN 0 289 80177-X Opposite page 70.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other indispensable books by Robert Copeland: </div><div><p class="MsoNormal">'Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth
& Nineteenth Centuries', Northern Ceramic Society, 2009 ISBN
978-0-9563159-0-8 [Much is illustrated from his photographs at Spode]<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">'Spode & Copeland Marks & Other Relevant Intelligence',
Studio Vista, 2nd edition 1997 ISBN 0 289 80069 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">'Parian: Copeland's Statuary Porcelain', Antique Collectors'
Club, 2007 ISBN 10: 1 85149 499 5, ISBN 13: 1 85149 499 6</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=xB4YAAAAYAAJ&q=spode#v=snippet&q=spode&f=false" target="_blank">The New Pocket Cyclopædia</a><span style="background-color: white;"> contains a report of the Prince's visit to Spode in 1806.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s648/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s320/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span><div><span style="background-color: white;">+ Please see Terry Woolliscroft's <a href="https://potbankdictionary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Potbank Dictionary</a> for explanation of words associated with the Pottery Industry.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Thanks to Pat Halfpenny with whom I swapped notes, images, information and enthusiasm about this subject.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Royal Pavilion history - click <a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/" target="_blank">HERE</a>> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Royal Pavilion objects in the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) - click </span><a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="background-color: white;">></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s512/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" style="background-color: #fcff01; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s320/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;">HM King George IV (1762-1830): Regent (1811-1820); King (1820-1830)</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s800/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="635" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s320/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2522/george-iv-1762-1830-reigned-regent-1811-1820-king-1820-1830?search=King%20George%20IV&search_set_offset=33" target="_blank">HM King George IV by Thomas Lawrence</a></span><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2522/george-iv-1762-1830-reigned-regent-1811-1820-king-1820-1830?search=King%20George%20IV&search_set_offset=33" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-6390237856496883392021-03-27T15:33:00.006+00:002021-09-27T11:54:30.769+01:00Spode & the Royal Pavilion (Part 2): Porcelain Pagodas<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZgxGqWhbdho5Hy6i-YmVKAsdTN-orGVcMJiNCLOAc0jEmtlPrKL2OChRXFUun0uQTR0i0hsmAm-3CQeKL3W8bhIkCXgrO90YEvxG5gHdaY2NILITzTx7u1WuJdt06aCNqO3UND-P5-c/s2048/927E270E-B2C1-4AA1-B6B8-01FFD5E54710+002.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZgxGqWhbdho5Hy6i-YmVKAsdTN-orGVcMJiNCLOAc0jEmtlPrKL2OChRXFUun0uQTR0i0hsmAm-3CQeKL3W8bhIkCXgrO90YEvxG5gHdaY2NILITzTx7u1WuJdt06aCNqO3UND-P5-c/s320/927E270E-B2C1-4AA1-B6B8-01FFD5E54710+002.jpg" /></a></div><div>This blogpost follows 'Spode & the Royal Pavilion (Part I): Oil Lamps & an Old Chinese Vase' which has my information on the background and introduction to the main players in this story. For more click <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-brighton-pavilion-be-amazed.html" target="_blank">here</a>></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Antique Chinese Porcelain Pagodas.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Impressive... but are they really big enough?</u></b></div></div><div>Chinese porcelain pagodas seem to have been something of 'A Thing' in the early 1800s and several, some in sets, are in the Royal Collections (RCT). I confess to getting a bit confused early on in this research with so many similar porcelain pagodas!</div><div><br /></div><div>In the top photo<a href="https://tldrify.com/15to">***</a> you can see 4 magnificent 518cm (17ft) high pagodas in situ at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton which was 'the seaside pleasure palace for HM King George IV'. They are also described by RCT as 'colossal Chinese towers' which I rather like. And they use the word 'pyramid' for other pagodas in their collections too. </div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3fbbzyp6WnCIsLnjf8atzbMseoPthqqfN26n0IEdUfC5R12BAE6At3pDP_J8pWIWfFG6vhW6y1qxL1o-VyTg6PL5odXwr8y3W5FUllOp8iqtk6hL0MEgyFVbIM2CMsvzZfnRWa5MzwM/s2000/pagoda+landscape+tops+Spode+royal+collections+RCIN+1.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3fbbzyp6WnCIsLnjf8atzbMseoPthqqfN26n0IEdUfC5R12BAE6At3pDP_J8pWIWfFG6vhW6y1qxL1o-VyTg6PL5odXwr8y3W5FUllOp8iqtk6hL0MEgyFVbIM2CMsvzZfnRWa5MzwM/w269-h640/pagoda+landscape+tops+Spode+royal+collections+RCIN+1.JPG" width="269" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pagoda 17ft high (RCT no.RCIN1)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>To make the original pagodas, which were already pretty impressive, even taller and to fit in with the scale of rooms in the Royal Pavilion, bases were added. The 'blue scagliola double plinths' were by Henry Westmacott. <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/josiah-spode-ii-gentlemans-magazine.html" target="_blank">Josiah Spode II</a> (Potter to the King) was commissioned to make the 'Chinese' landscape panels for the main part of the new bases. These beautiful panels are decorated with transfer printed borders in a blue fretwork pattern which surrounds the handpainted Chinese scenes. They show the great technical skill of Spode's early 19th century ceramic manufacture. The gilded metal work was by Benjamin Vulliamy<a href="https://tldrify.com/15tq">*</a>. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJfmTVRsxY7LaWehXRmpaEQF3ZLWlgFpn_HQ18-K3TiPQRHs6_gSakFY-j7SAS87iqDrpx2mg4nOzuLxnm5DKeRBcwNeCBsTaHxjRpdLw89ZYEllu86u85sayczF1lh1zGFm88EXoATQ/s853/Spode+based+pagodas+Royal+coll+detail+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="853" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJfmTVRsxY7LaWehXRmpaEQF3ZLWlgFpn_HQ18-K3TiPQRHs6_gSakFY-j7SAS87iqDrpx2mg4nOzuLxnm5DKeRBcwNeCBsTaHxjRpdLw89ZYEllu86u85sayczF1lh1zGFm88EXoATQ/s320/Spode+based+pagodas+Royal+coll+detail+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Spode panels for the base</td></tr></tbody></table><div>Spode's ceramic panels are likely to have been made from their <a href="https://tldrify.com/121d" target="_blank">stone china</a> body which was developed to imitate, and match, Chinese porcelain in look, feel and quality. It was in production by 1812 but the exact date of introduction is unknown. Certainly some of the other pagodas in the Royal Pavilion have bases which are marked with the Stone China <a href="https://tldrify.com/12ze" target="_blank">backstamp</a> (mark) which is in the style of a pseudo-Chinese seal.</div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM8mSMo1VsDg63hVPavGb1UlH8X6TbkeEqDRHrKrT-g6Q3i-qpsfB8nsfRzl0aClclQXCThnqq39dqAWPsvHCu129rbMbUVFF5hyphenhyphenIBJMbIFt259Z_Lxj658b7HFcadIa1_h-8je7uEqM/s298/604786-1461747367+backstamp+01+RCIN+2400+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="298" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM8mSMo1VsDg63hVPavGb1UlH8X6TbkeEqDRHrKrT-g6Q3i-qpsfB8nsfRzl0aClclQXCThnqq39dqAWPsvHCu129rbMbUVFF5hyphenhyphenIBJMbIFt259Z_Lxj658b7HFcadIa1_h-8je7uEqM/w200-h199/604786-1461747367+backstamp+01+RCIN+2400+%25282%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp used on another set of pagodas (RCT no.RCIN2400)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>Together with this set of four pagodas, two more pairs are in the RCT (RCIN812 and RCIN 2400) and were installed at the Royal Pavilion. These also had ceramic base panels made by Spode. The two other pairs of Chinese porcelain pagodas were of different designs and had different panels made by Spode for their bases.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTT3GAQgTEb_2bnddlhTrzdOGZq0PlUXokIsfn7QfppdNXqg-SM2chsWGj-mVuhUc9GBJBtRWuxID0uKjAyp7Ad7qaQgbQZI7z_uOusLK69fMcU_KX2NlZRwdHCMCvSltBPdTlGtUfkg/s616/Spode+panels+455596-1399541341+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTT3GAQgTEb_2bnddlhTrzdOGZq0PlUXokIsfn7QfppdNXqg-SM2chsWGj-mVuhUc9GBJBtRWuxID0uKjAyp7Ad7qaQgbQZI7z_uOusLK69fMcU_KX2NlZRwdHCMCvSltBPdTlGtUfkg/s320/Spode+panels+455596-1399541341+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Spode panels made for the base (RCT no.RCIN2400)</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lUN1shFOENs5yJ3H0hiy2BYuPHQr-1r_gJwxHKMRowS0DV8-JzDgrEBm-YpZ9CdokAUhx4KB8CFBQA2Ht98abWwCWf-5-13fiksd3hcf0Rx_XMW8J38H8Ybh7dkIEL5ycDFhs49XLdE/s482/526635-1429005834+RCIN+812_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="184" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lUN1shFOENs5yJ3H0hiy2BYuPHQr-1r_gJwxHKMRowS0DV8-JzDgrEBm-YpZ9CdokAUhx4KB8CFBQA2Ht98abWwCWf-5-13fiksd3hcf0Rx_XMW8J38H8Ybh7dkIEL5ycDFhs49XLdE/s320/526635-1429005834+RCIN+812_cr.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pagoda, bottom 2 tiers by Spode (RCT no.RCIN812)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>All these pagodas can be viewed in detail on the RCT website.<a href="https://tldrify.com/15tr">**</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here you can also find other Spode items, as well as those made at a later date when the company was <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">owned by the Copeland family</a>, which are in the RCT. To view them use the link at the end of this post. Then use the search option and search on Spode, select the tab 'What' to find the details of the various Spode objects including the pagoda sets. Unfortunately it is not possible to link directly to the Spode pagodas.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you would like to marvel at the skill of how to put a pagoda together from all its component parts, please click <a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/trails/brighton-pavilion-the-making-of-a-pleasure-palace/pavilion-music-room" target="_blank">Assembling a Pagoda</a> and page down to watch a time-lapse film which is great fun. </div><div><div>_________________</div><div><div>Acknowledgments and notes:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Taken from my lecture 'The Josiah Spodes: Pottery Pioneers'</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to Robert Copeland (1925-2010) who sparked my interest in and researched and wrote about this subject sharing his knowledge with me. In particular his article 'Jars for the King', published in the Spode Society's 'Recorder'. More about the 'Jars' will appear in the next instalment.</div><div><br /></div><div>* Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780–1854), succeeded his father as head of the firm and Clockmaker to the King. Although his formal education is unknown, he evidently received a thorough training in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the business. By 1800 he was already helping to run the firm and after he became a partner in 1801 his involvement rapidly increased, so there was little immediate change in the firm's direction when he took over in 1811. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=xB4YAAAAYAAJ&q=spode#v=snippet&q=spode&f=false" target="_blank">The New Pocket Cyclopædia</a> contains a report of the Prince's visit to Spode in 1806.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s648/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s320/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div>Terry Woolliscroft's <a href="https://potbankdictionary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Potbank Dictionary</a> for explanation of words associated with the Pottery Industry.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to Pat Halfpenny with whom I swapped notes images, information and enthusiasm about this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>Royal Pavilion history - click <a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/" target="_blank">HERE</a>> </div><div><br /></div><div>**Royal Pavilion objects in the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) - click <a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection" target="_blank">HERE</a>></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s512/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s320/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div>***Thank you to <a href="https://soas.academia.edu/PatriciaFerguson" target="_blank">Patricia Ferguson</a> for the photo showing pagodas in situ at the Royal Pavilion. Patricia is on Instagram: <span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">@vasemadness </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">More images from another blog called 'RosemaryandPorkBelly' <a href="https://rosemaryandporkbelly.co.uk/prince-regents-treasures/" target="_blank">here></a> and specifically Spode <a href="https://tldrify.com/146p" target="_blank">here></a> </span></div><div><br /></div>HM King George IV (1762-1830): Regent (1811-1820); King (1820-1830)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s800/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="635" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s320/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2522/george-iv-1762-1830-reigned-regent-1811-1820-king-1820-1830?search=King%20George%20IV&search_set_offset=33" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ee;">HM King George IV by Thomas Lawrence</span><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><br />Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-46122287577664957552020-12-28T15:58:00.011+00:002021-09-27T12:08:53.053+01:00Spode & the Royal Pavilion (Part I): Oil Lamps & an Old Chinese Vase<span><div style="background-color: white;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEl9iccC6ueEH7C0RtgRk6vp9myoUdGlwifxmWNofy6bP7OllOSnDxlGplGZ4q8_xiArMZ-NYAh7PuasBd-nXL1jPhmcXZ1ODpypCa1lanVOACSg80gK4Sm5k6VQzs608J45lg4KjqXE/s439/CHINESE+PART+Lamps+RCIN+204+06.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="206" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEl9iccC6ueEH7C0RtgRk6vp9myoUdGlwifxmWNofy6bP7OllOSnDxlGplGZ4q8_xiArMZ-NYAh7PuasBd-nXL1jPhmcXZ1ODpypCa1lanVOACSg80gK4Sm5k6VQzs608J45lg4KjqXE/s320/CHINESE+PART+Lamps+RCIN+204+06.PNG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duc d’Orléans Chinese vase, 3ft high, early 18thC</td></tr></tbody></table></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><b>Antique Chinese Vases? Let's Make Them into Oil Lamps!</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">The </span><a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/short-history-of-the-royal-pavilion/" target="_blank">Royal Pavilion</a> in<span style="background-color: white;"> Brighton holds some remarkable objects. As 'the seaside pleasure palace for HM King George IV', it was decorated and furnished with the most amazing and exuberant objects of all sorts, including ceramics. Many items were specially commissioned. And many other objects, which most people would have swooned over in their original state, were altered, augmented and/or enlarged.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">Spode</a> (the pottery manufacturer), under <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/josiah-spode-ii-gentlemans-magazine.html" target="_blank">Josiah Spode II</a>, played an important part in the production of some of these magnificent and large objects. </span>Josiah Spode II's important involvement rarely gets a mention... hence this blogpost.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-aw8hcUu1zGeFBqd5qdTLyN0VMA2ptH4NUnYmqeWyjqqRD6esUMp9YZJs9QiterTicTKl3VVg5hG2FAm4i15e7VLiZY4P-B64U5gtClacp1cRSn7XIJ4T3Bd0vLAF50qHa8ddOt839k/s1488/Spode+II+plaque2cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1488" data-original-width="1227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-aw8hcUu1zGeFBqd5qdTLyN0VMA2ptH4NUnYmqeWyjqqRD6esUMp9YZJs9QiterTicTKl3VVg5hG2FAm4i15e7VLiZY4P-B64U5gtClacp1cRSn7XIJ4T3Bd0vLAF50qHa8ddOt839k/s320/Spode+II+plaque2cropped.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait of Spode II on a Spode ceramic plaque</td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="background-color: white;">Josiah Spode II had his pottery manufactory in Stoke and a fashionable </span><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/spode-and-london.html" target="_blank">'warehouse' in London</a>. He was skilled in all aspects of ceramic manufacture, a true Master Potter. He was also brilliant at marketing his products and supplied the well-to-do from royalty downwards. He was to beco<span style="background-color: white;">me Potter to the King but prior to that had already been appointed 'Potter and English Porcelain Manufacturer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales'. This took place in 1806 when the Prince had visited the Spode manufactory in Stoke and had been suitably impressed<a href="https://tldrify.com/15tu"> ***.</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>In this first part of this series here is the story of metamorphosis from 'old Chinese vase' to magnificent oil lamp.</div><div><br /></div><div>It all begins in 1817 when 3 antique Chinese porcelain vases, dating from the early 1700s, were purchased in Paris for the Prince Regent. They had belonged to Philippe II (1674-1723), duc d’Orléans, Regent of France (1715-1723), and included his coat of arms. </div><div><br />It was not sufficient that these 3 beautiful antique Chinese porcelain vases (top photo), each about 100cm (about 3ft) high, together with another 3 from a different provenance, were now destined for the palace but somebody had the thought: 'Let's make them into a set of 6 enormous, elaborate oil lamps'. </div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3FPGDDDkzjpLh-rHdsanBc6FRSrl5orofV1xIbCfbTV8DAzL7i-Pbg9_tp4Oum28B2O56i_7z2E-tb6ith2BqCzKcjXLARuIUIh-eiRlhn6iI5OMPSXD2NjMoomLHxKYLft-0Ss8k4A/s431/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+361517-1360753538+RCIN+204_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="214" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3FPGDDDkzjpLh-rHdsanBc6FRSrl5orofV1xIbCfbTV8DAzL7i-Pbg9_tp4Oum28B2O56i_7z2E-tb6ith2BqCzKcjXLARuIUIh-eiRlhn6iI5OMPSXD2NjMoomLHxKYLft-0Ss8k4A/s320/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+361517-1360753538+RCIN+204_cr.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vase with added gilded bronze base and handles<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Two men in particular, famous and skilled in their fields, were commissioned to collaborate and carry out the necessary work. Benjamin Vulliamy<a href="https://tldrify.com/15ts">*</a> (later Clockmaker to the King) was to make the gilded bronze adornments; and Josiah Spode II (later Potter to the King) was to make extra, almost architectural, matching porcelain parts. I have not seen these items 'in the flesh' and the ceramic parts may be <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china</a> or <a href="https://tldrify.com/121d" target="_blank">stone china</a> - both ceramic <a href="https://tldrify.com/119m" target="_blank">bodies</a> were early 19th century inventions and/or developments of Josiah Spode II. Some of the Spode additions for the Brighton Pavilion interiors are definitely stone china and are <a href="https://tldrify.com/121c" target="_blank">backstamped </a>(marked) as such. In some contemporary records<a href="https://tldrify.com/15tt">**</a> they are referred to as 'British China'.</div><div><br /></div><div>How were the simple vases converted into huge, elaborate oil lamps?</div><div><br /></div><div>I find it's easier to look at the changes in stages (although this is probably not the order they were made in).</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Handles & Foot:</u></div><div>The handles (below) are elegant, swooping, winged dragons in gilded bronze. Plus a robust foot (image above) also in gilded bronze. This work was by Vulliamy.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkxHAou3K32Z2Dj0z-7By3hmkRtDNC4BouI_OfcS-PYIW1r4c47kgxCpjOQEF6U3Jq9EPAfm8xrAAWVjtO5zPAcDArUiBgTYNmIyiOmSqpKybSd0-QB-wHJC4T9jxv9MErs5kZ47eBPw/s500/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+361516-1360753498+RCIN+204.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkxHAou3K32Z2Dj0z-7By3hmkRtDNC4BouI_OfcS-PYIW1r4c47kgxCpjOQEF6U3Jq9EPAfm8xrAAWVjtO5zPAcDArUiBgTYNmIyiOmSqpKybSd0-QB-wHJC4T9jxv9MErs5kZ47eBPw/w133-h200/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+361516-1360753498+RCIN+204.jpg" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handle detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIZxxxDM_UdGCpgH5Qly0hyElk2vz0r3YTrMEEe_YN9rb7e6J9i5-LMN8JQ4FT9_uaW7QcGUczEQ7whWOxMFIyNGlrx_v3PwkD11YbZNZ3U7Sn4NwyYIN-6nTfF4kmnupxSH9ViG4JAA/s498/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+Lamps+RCIN+204+Spode+Orleans+lampshade+04.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="195" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIZxxxDM_UdGCpgH5Qly0hyElk2vz0r3YTrMEEe_YN9rb7e6J9i5-LMN8JQ4FT9_uaW7QcGUczEQ7whWOxMFIyNGlrx_v3PwkD11YbZNZ3U7Sn4NwyYIN-6nTfF4kmnupxSH9ViG4JAA/s320/CHINESE+PART+with+VULLIAMY+bits+Lamps+RCIN+204+Spode+Orleans+lampshade+04.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Additions of Handles, Foot & Light Bowl</td></tr></tbody></table><div><u>Light Bowl:</u></div><div>These vases are going to be working oil lamps, so some sort of light fitting is required. In the photo above you can now see that a 'light bowl' has been added to the top of the vase and more beautiful gilded bronze fittings. In the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a> this light bowl is recorded as the 'Orleans Light Bowl & Foot'. I always wondered where the Orleans name came from... now I know, as it was to be fitted atop the duc d'Orleans old vases.<div><br /></div><div>The image below shows 'Orleans Light Bowl & Foot' with its manufacturing instructions from a shape book of c1820. These include the note 'NB The Bowl is made of a Mould and the Foot & Neck are Thrown'. The majority of the pieces in the Spode shape books of this period are for items solely made by throwing hence the note. The technical details included are for the Thrower (measurements on the left-hand page) and for the Turner (measurements on the right-hand page).</div><div><br /></div><div>I have added an image of the light bowl on top of the shape book entry so you can see how the actual pieces fitted onto the lamps. The red oval red circle highlights the annotation 'for the King'. Nice!</div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRJQKOqN0zLnI1wZ8zCLztFPoweRypX7B4gBiIBf4X7Uy6oycMmP22_n2ZieeWypoLYjL8-0jtJe8tfhNlvHg3vzh4Rr78edPiTkdjVgbd2XMWo3w9yanD6LRs8LUikvCquXuzVyJvzI/s823/Orleans+Lamp+Shape+Book+2020+detail_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="823" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRJQKOqN0zLnI1wZ8zCLztFPoweRypX7B4gBiIBf4X7Uy6oycMmP22_n2ZieeWypoLYjL8-0jtJe8tfhNlvHg3vzh4Rr78edPiTkdjVgbd2XMWo3w9yanD6LRs8LUikvCquXuzVyJvzI/s320/Orleans+Lamp+Shape+Book+2020+detail_cr.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orleans Light Bowl & Foot<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><u>Base:</u></div><div>So, together with their conversion to lamps, was this enough extra ornamentation to these Chinese vases? Of course not. Let's make them taller, really tall!</div><div><br /></div><div>A base was designed and, again, the Spode pottery manufactory made the ceramic panels and Vulliamy the gilded bronze. The Spode panels were handpainted and gilded following the Chinese style of the original vase. It's technically difficult to make ceramics absolutely flat and the Spode company always excelled at this. You can find out a bit more about this elsewhere on this blog - click <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/spode-and-tiles.html" target="_blank">here></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDu6RTNs6-xrRZODYfD5jAI-FpgiIxtw53SKElmutC0EZQR5lx9G_hTLMVHnz4dtPjgmIEZXQKpxda7CXOxARfvbiW9167mNPM3lEEqr2b8lq5IHOoCpI9rNU_iHpd9ZyjMPu6Yu5q5o/s2000/BASE+270224-1334914618+RCIN+204+02+Lamps+base+Spode+panels+and+shade+06.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDu6RTNs6-xrRZODYfD5jAI-FpgiIxtw53SKElmutC0EZQR5lx9G_hTLMVHnz4dtPjgmIEZXQKpxda7CXOxARfvbiW9167mNPM3lEEqr2b8lq5IHOoCpI9rNU_iHpd9ZyjMPu6Yu5q5o/s320/BASE+270224-1334914618+RCIN+204+02+Lamps+base+Spode+panels+and+shade+06.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rather wonderful lamp base<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>What did the finished oil lamps look like? Magnificent!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2obL6JndWJYMYiJiLzKycKmJxpVCjKFwWk5FOZWUrDmc7pkxGBYDolEtbXEO_2PIctfZAOU0rdrQq-W0Nb03ifhwqjcYAAQXrVJD3ECwM85Kqni799jw8btEzF-t1_rD8jRh2BAI7JA/s1992/FULL+Lamps+RCIN+204+Spode+panels+and+light+bowl+and+foot+06a_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1992" data-original-width="676" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2obL6JndWJYMYiJiLzKycKmJxpVCjKFwWk5FOZWUrDmc7pkxGBYDolEtbXEO_2PIctfZAOU0rdrQq-W0Nb03ifhwqjcYAAQXrVJD3ECwM85Kqni799jw8btEzF-t1_rD8jRh2BAI7JA/w136-h400/FULL+Lamps+RCIN+204+Spode+panels+and+light+bowl+and+foot+06a_cr.jpg" width="136" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed oil lamp about 9ft high</td></tr></tbody></table><div>What this story does not tell is the whole technical side of things, the communication between the Spode factory in Stoke and their London business, communication with Vulliamy and other experts, and with the agents of the HM King George IV. </div><div><br /></div><div>And, all the ceramic parts made by Spode, would have had to be fired in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/spode-and-bottle-ovens.html" target="_blank">bottle ovens</a> several times, once for each stage of manufacture: biscuit firing, glost firing, firing for each colour, painted in stages; and after the gilding. Then the gold <a href="https://tldrify.com/121e" target="_blank">burnished</a> by hand to bring out its natural glow. The Spode pieces would also have had to be exactly the right size. This is no mean feat and is what I really admire - Josiah Spode II at the forefront of ceramic technology.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhSa6u3avaJnUDFPh0oQBeAmkJQsestCsLys5LqJiyfG3jfNQDOCAct82m6NXzFQTUICnPzfmILz37xDFcHYlsi41jTGjbsn6IWgAHAS1OmDc1JNLVQcjaiAkm78JTIrP2csISvupGRo/s494/plate+with+potworks+and+meadowdetail.tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhSa6u3avaJnUDFPh0oQBeAmkJQsestCsLys5LqJiyfG3jfNQDOCAct82m6NXzFQTUICnPzfmILz37xDFcHYlsi41jTGjbsn6IWgAHAS1OmDc1JNLVQcjaiAkm78JTIrP2csISvupGRo/s320/plate+with+potworks+and+meadowdetail.tif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/11gs" target="_blank">Plate painted with Spode factory and its bottle ovens (detail)</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The pieces passed through many, many hands from preparation of raw materials through to the finished pieces. <div><br /></div><div>Here are a few: mould makers and pressers, slab makers, makers of the moulded parts, the thrower and turners, glaze makers and <a href="https://tldrify.com/11gt" target="_blank">dippers</a>,<a href="https://tldrify.com/15tv">****</a> hand painters, gilders and burnishers, the placers and, one of the most important men on the factory, the fireman. And don't forget clerks, bookkeepers, design, record keeping, accountants, packers and transport... </div><div><br /></div><div>The risk of damage, at any stage, to the original vases and the making of the new bits must have been a bit scary.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am sure there is more to say about these lamps and one day I hope I will be able to see them 'in the flesh'.<div><br /></div><div>Look out for part 2 of this series of Spode & the Royal Pavilion... where you will discover more of Spode's skills and the extravagance and the wonder <a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/" target="_blank">Brighton Pavilion</a>... from a ceramic point of view.<div><div><br />_________________</div><div><div><div>Acknowledgments and notes:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Taken from my lecture 'The Josiah Spodes: Pottery Pioneers'</div><div><br /></div><div>* Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780–1854), succeeded his father as head of the firm and Clockmaker to the King. Although his formal education is unknown, he evidently received a thorough training in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the business. By 1800 he was already helping to run the firm and after he became a partner in 1801 his involvement rapidly increased, so there was little immediate change in the firm's direction when he took over in 1811. </div><div><br /></div><div>**Many thanks to Robert Copeland (1925-2010) who sparked my interest in and researched, wrote about this subject and shared his knowledge with me. In particular his article 'Jars for the King', published in the Spode Society's 'Recorder'.</div><div><br /></div><div>***<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=xB4YAAAAYAAJ&q=spode#v=snippet&q=spode&f=false" target="_blank">The New Pocket Cyclopædia</a> contains a report of the Prince's visit to Spode in 1806.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s648/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb0GPlHyTcHvRgFGtHL0csEsXtSDTC7waN-4eM7l-Bpw0K0-BZXIXGiXwcA22aBApd8QxMHrlkcKDfmflYb1cyi6irivPewIYWE5LEGXllkvnWVUPHoG8yJ_0Mlw4j2UT8Y6RczK2OwQ/s320/Frontispiec+extract+The_new_pocket_cyclop%25C3%25A6dia_or_Elements_o+page+336+Royal+1806.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div>**** Terry Woolliscroft's <a href="https://potbankdictionary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Potbank Dictionary</a> for explanation of words associated with the Pottery Industry.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to Pat Halfpenny with whom I swapped notes images, information and enthusiasm about this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>Royal Pavilion history - click <a href="https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/" target="_blank">HERE</a>> </div><div><br /></div><div>Royal Pavilion objects in the Royal Collection Trust - click <a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection" target="_blank">HERE</a>></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s512/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6H-SAB8owp72kpmMXSCJ3HiVxP9ZVGUYJ1IqUBjo10zdOss90F9bVi39XtrteX_E9jX9oqaZDM4IltSaVZBxh1FjfmsRp3lANFqo7rkVNlfgLkINudlw50AlsVPlZT3oYckEPepHNSUQ/s320/royal+collection+logo+2020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>HM King George IV (1762-1830): Regent (1811-1820); King (1820-1830)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s800/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="635" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDb24ADi122AZpOR3fpwADRPcqRQIhwJs7dyl-jCOzIV-npSlo5zsjz-_1E4qfZ9sJega6DUseVhpZS-9eirivAqAQDZy7gQI7cfqxg9IhZ_B2HfWwj9n_VmjK8cPMQvyU4h79arkluc/s320/George+IV+by+Thomas+Lawrence+ARTUK.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2522/george-iv-1762-1830-reigned-regent-1811-1820-king-1820-1830?search=King%20George%20IV&search_set_offset=33" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration-line: underline;">HM King George IV by Thomas Lawrence</span><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-79896964668943056842020-09-01T09:38:00.001+01:002021-06-07T13:42:12.581+01:00Spode, a lorry and four cups<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0CCWUy61V7NramSoodY90ECkaLNNw4BfK0_NsTAvPMfyBSIiaeXoHDrJTV4q76olrc8B4QGhPVd0vzxF0i-iLgS2il7LpqwBjH7VPfLkwcH3ZbiPh5qdev_SkhcJSc11IrhVjDytRLIY/s1016/1959+Lorry+and+man+on+four+cups_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1016" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0CCWUy61V7NramSoodY90ECkaLNNw4BfK0_NsTAvPMfyBSIiaeXoHDrJTV4q76olrc8B4QGhPVd0vzxF0i-iLgS2il7LpqwBjH7VPfLkwcH3ZbiPh5qdev_SkhcJSc11IrhVjDytRLIY/w410-h265/1959+Lorry+and+man+on+four+cups_cr.jpg" width="410" /></a></div>This photo was taken in 1959 at the Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent.<p></p><p>It illustrates something very special. But what's the story behind the photograph?</p><p>In 1959 the Spode company was owned by the Copeland family operating as <a href="https://tldrify.com/zx7" target="_blank">W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd.</a></p><p>In the photo you can see what was then a modern vehicle to be proud of. It is smartly painted in the Spode livery.</p><p>The same typeface was also used as part of Spode <a href="https://tldrify.com/zx8" target="_blank">backstamps</a> of the period as well as on printed material, such as the in-house magazine the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/spode-and-spode-saga.html" target="_blank">'Spode Saga'.</a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NXHryU4RwOG4WLdTdFTjhG55-biOM6Syqdz1fpPMsMBEa-t_RUOCMRhZSN_X5z6-N67MANHscFMql7Gna8mtamJVbEX0BsbsfKn2CfYujXbUMf8qR5BFBQVhnUJwHSI-orHUjIBreYc/s395/1959+Lorry+and+man+on+four+cups_cr+livery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="395" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NXHryU4RwOG4WLdTdFTjhG55-biOM6Syqdz1fpPMsMBEa-t_RUOCMRhZSN_X5z6-N67MANHscFMql7Gna8mtamJVbEX0BsbsfKn2CfYujXbUMf8qR5BFBQVhnUJwHSI-orHUjIBreYc/w253-h143/1959+Lorry+and+man+on+four+cups_cr+livery.jpg" width="253" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of lorry livery<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi878qd60uJDR-P880AZY9MC5wnalCzVw9P77APgmSZq7n6HoZH7EPhzJ5UaP7Q5AJjO4aFseKB9K7i1-7X5APT1_BL8dLZlddki6_NdantaH_yreZ41NOMC_uE9BOmfCotCYwo19X-424/s212/TRC+Marks+Book+page+73_cr_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="212" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi878qd60uJDR-P880AZY9MC5wnalCzVw9P77APgmSZq7n6HoZH7EPhzJ5UaP7Q5AJjO4aFseKB9K7i1-7X5APT1_BL8dLZlddki6_NdantaH_yreZ41NOMC_uE9BOmfCotCYwo19X-424/w200-h102/TRC+Marks+Book+page+73_cr_cr.jpg" title="Backstamp with the matching logo c1960" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp c1960<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1344" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAd2ovFSIaBKQ24JL6TBdM-XN36qNDiYQpHfmiD_59bcgru80Elo89WPPZVxsA3o_OQrhgvksNAu2st2GwwF-2F8zim-LpTrmNYNTLOjb1Riia7bxGFc_YjXFiFRa28TrBnLE7byrmHJ0/w269-h410/Spode+Saga+1951+01_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="269" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover, 'Spode Saga'<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFwGqRCGyyby5WFptA7mAdEdk8rN7ZJ6KyxqNdyHVmeduhgp-eqBQnrwaH5vKmL4vcN87X8Q86pD1RxXs04kAT1zmW9UbmESwImLbFntR0n0wIiUJTP32VfFgFE_2Bgp-Oh91cUwrBd0/s2048/EnglishLavender+1959+02_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1263" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFwGqRCGyyby5WFptA7mAdEdk8rN7ZJ6KyxqNdyHVmeduhgp-eqBQnrwaH5vKmL4vcN87X8Q86pD1RxXs04kAT1zmW9UbmESwImLbFntR0n0wIiUJTP32VfFgFE_2Bgp-Oh91cUwrBd0/w253-h410/EnglishLavender+1959+02_cr.jpg" width="253" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catalogue page 1959<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">Also in the photo is a young man who I believe was the driver but sadly I have not found his name.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZYtTjlAjiNVlCTzSL2os22qBegDyQId4p1hrJoLHx0WKusd_wgc97jIu4y6zZ2rPrp_8-tlrERwfgA0UPYJaUYSOFOwfSKLpb5KRZp1dGEo_ATf7CKrkYJ-gartfjrZMEmrHruUAt7o/s378/1959+Lorry+on+four+cups+driver_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="151" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZYtTjlAjiNVlCTzSL2os22qBegDyQId4p1hrJoLHx0WKusd_wgc97jIu4y6zZ2rPrp_8-tlrERwfgA0UPYJaUYSOFOwfSKLpb5KRZp1dGEo_ATf7CKrkYJ-gartfjrZMEmrHruUAt7o/w121-h302/1959+Lorry+on+four+cups+driver_cr.jpg" width="121" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lorry driver<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div>But look, there's more. Look under the wheels.<div><br />This is a publicity stunt!<p>The lorry is balanced on four bone china cups. This is pottery showmanship at its best - showcasing the strength of Spode's bone china.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDXFI-kehsBp9VLOLboqniwL3eJCBFF23xcrk0TFQSnCXgw_VqthEPmlvUrEHDPcOqqNaRO7gGYWlH2YVP31kHRabNeEg-V7ZPVltHHfnFd808mOdm_SMxkkTJLP6nUYRHt8ToG__-8U/s925/1959+Lorry+on+four+cups+detail_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="925" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDXFI-kehsBp9VLOLboqniwL3eJCBFF23xcrk0TFQSnCXgw_VqthEPmlvUrEHDPcOqqNaRO7gGYWlH2YVP31kHRabNeEg-V7ZPVltHHfnFd808mOdm_SMxkkTJLP6nUYRHt8ToG__-8U/w410-h144/1959+Lorry+on+four+cups+detail_cr.jpg" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode bone china cups under the wheels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html">Bone china</a> is a Big Thing in the Staffordshire pottery industry.</div><div><br /></div><div>The qualities of bone china are:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>whiteness</li><li>translucency</li><li>strength</li><li>resonance</li></ul></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Its manufacturing and design quality was hugely important to the top pottery manufacturers, and particularly to Spode, who laid claim to its invention and/or perfection in about 1799/1800. It is this bone china which took the Spode company to greatness in the early 1800s overtaking rivals who could not compete with the quality of this new product.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTH2QzLDZN1IyRqQyK-Vm9w0nHS2Z_RLORmemVDlxnTmyPfaswhZTr2duFePEZ2xERuV6W8acEIeewI3MXdqdXpAOVKiP6UHSce7FRVKvMtY4MyEMbTerLFA3Gz-XTS7P-n-8CXHbgCo/s1000/pattern+2812++02+small.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1000" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTH2QzLDZN1IyRqQyK-Vm9w0nHS2Z_RLORmemVDlxnTmyPfaswhZTr2duFePEZ2xERuV6W8acEIeewI3MXdqdXpAOVKiP6UHSce7FRVKvMtY4MyEMbTerLFA3Gz-XTS7P-n-8CXHbgCo/w210-h187/pattern+2812++02+small.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coffee cup, pattern 2812 c1820<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietc_WHOW3ZifnhRArSala1jAu7Iu01hkhuPhDXXfP869VNowx0VnxdRsTc1hJz4UEeGSA1MnMDvcG0jNdKBhJBxoPkT6YE955zrf8HeuaQpiGHi5_bHkOBesac805OW4F4zkQamlIEaQ/s1000/pattern+2812+12+translucency+small.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietc_WHOW3ZifnhRArSala1jAu7Iu01hkhuPhDXXfP869VNowx0VnxdRsTc1hJz4UEeGSA1MnMDvcG0jNdKBhJBxoPkT6YE955zrf8HeuaQpiGHi5_bHkOBesac805OW4F4zkQamlIEaQ/w210-h158/pattern+2812+12+translucency+small.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking inside the cup showing translucency</td></tr></tbody></table>The photos above show a bone china coffee cup in pattern 2182 of about 1820. You can see the whiteness, the quality of both shape and pattern design, and the translucency. <p><span style="background-color: white;">So... in this marketing gimmick, what better way to show the strength of the then current Spode bone china than to balance something heavy on the product for a dramatic statemen</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>t?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The lorry on four cups was the result. I love it!</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">I was lucky, whilst curator of the Spode museum, to have </span>Robert Copeland (1925-2010) as my Spode mentor and colleague sharing his vast knowledge of the company history with me. At various times Robert was a partner in the firm and director as well as Historical Consultant. Conversations with him, whether formal or over a cuppa or lunch were always fascinating, often very amusing (we had the same sense of humour), and I used to scribble notes down, many of which are now preserved in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I mention this because, of course, Robert was full of information about the 'lorry on four cups' event as he was there at the time and instrumental in developing the idea.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNTk4RevUnR_N9zVzxoKoChCchkooR0azU7upbxVuTcVjo8pJ_dRBWoJJGsYJbA2PFQJ81dEb4KjQUJp9p2jX7GQD6b3ygg6UEbetwEmNQnF3gceKie1SYaVQ1MSd4aWuHmRo74hsXRA/s1742/Pam+and+TRC+in+his+office+1998.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1742" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNTk4RevUnR_N9zVzxoKoChCchkooR0azU7upbxVuTcVjo8pJ_dRBWoJJGsYJbA2PFQJ81dEb4KjQUJp9p2jX7GQD6b3ygg6UEbetwEmNQnF3gceKie1SYaVQ1MSd4aWuHmRo74hsXRA/w328-h219/Pam+and+TRC+in+his+office+1998.jpg" width="328" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The author & Robert, deep in ceramic conversation 1998<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;">He told me that for this Spode 'show of strength' a new area of nice smooth roadway was prepared on the factory site. After the publicity photographs had been taken and the lorry removed Robert recalled, with a giggle, that the cups had sunk into the new soft roadway and couldn't easily be retrieved!</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJ4Aq8jAkMemVUSe3QKadXjSyLIhHMWUv9JrAbcDycNluaof546eqICX_VXCTGvh-zK6Z9eWBj3VgJ-SyiQmNfmLUOzNUz539QM0OMdbQCbUp9-dfvqti5Fi32z3ZMGYNq7EWOwUpa24/s2048/china+catalogue+1959+with+1930s+05+Ruskin+and+Regent.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="2048" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJ4Aq8jAkMemVUSe3QKadXjSyLIhHMWUv9JrAbcDycNluaof546eqICX_VXCTGvh-zK6Z9eWBj3VgJ-SyiQmNfmLUOzNUz539QM0OMdbQCbUp9-dfvqti5Fi32z3ZMGYNq7EWOwUpa24/w328-h232/china+catalogue+1959+with+1930s+05+Ruskin+and+Regent.jpg" width="328" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catalogue page bone china 1959<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;">The 1959 catalogue page from a bone china catalogue shows the style of ware available at the time. The cup shape might even be that used in the lorry stunt.</span><p></p><p></p></div></div>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-39853034304001748632020-08-01T13:54:00.001+01:002020-08-01T13:57:51.954+01:00Spode and 'an accomplished violinist'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Violin c1780</td></tr>
</tbody></table>So what has a violinist got to do with Spode? Quite a lot! Read on...<div><br /></div><div>In his history* of the Adams potting family, Percy Adams wrote:<br />
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'<i>When any festivities were held at the Bank House </i>[the Adams' home in Bagnall, Staffordshire]<i>, Josiah Spode of Stoke (afterwards the famous potter) would always be invited to be one of the musicians, as he was an accomplished violinist. The two succeeding generations of the Adams and Spode families were intimate friends.</i>'</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05963/Josiah-Spode-I?LinkID=mp04231&role=sit&rNo=0" target="_blank">Josiah Spode I, National Portrait Gallery</a></td></tr>
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The particular <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2020/03/josiah-spode-i-birthday-or-baptism.html" target="_blank">Josiah Spode</a> mentioned by Adams in the above extract is the one we now know as Josiah Spode I (1733-1797). In his lifetime the numbers at the end of the names were not used to differentiate between the Spodes. But now it helps us to know who was who of the many <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-confusion-of-spodes.html" target="_blank">Josiah Spodes</a>. In the Spodes' lifetime they would use a suffix of Elder or Younger, for example.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnetIt-DIvwNWOj-mfaiPtkXblCJCvQ-YZFl0AomTiZrRFoQ51Nd5MjHykMxPdbRCfFyXB_DyfpJsyM7fh8y4WW_LFjMIjfDve4xw8j4HiYG0MgslEMVSriyYdBSXINUGM33L-29ujgxo/s1600/fiddle+dancing+scene+pwddc450.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="450" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnetIt-DIvwNWOj-mfaiPtkXblCJCvQ-YZFl0AomTiZrRFoQ51Nd5MjHykMxPdbRCfFyXB_DyfpJsyM7fh8y4WW_LFjMIjfDve4xw8j4HiYG0MgslEMVSriyYdBSXINUGM33L-29ujgxo/s320/fiddle+dancing+scene+pwddc450.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Festivities' and violinist</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9jvaYzJgo1euWN45VZcighC2aTPFxPjrXQZVVT4iVUZRCXdBpHsrr_1z4HUHSUUh80JG5e14HUNkAWF7apSZpTlaCwlx_vGKECW8GPvFK2RVY65cmChYl43biWebYu924oHlvPtbzC8/s1600/stoke+to+bagnall+Adams+home_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9jvaYzJgo1euWN45VZcighC2aTPFxPjrXQZVVT4iVUZRCXdBpHsrr_1z4HUHSUUh80JG5e14HUNkAWF7apSZpTlaCwlx_vGKECW8GPvFK2RVY65cmChYl43biWebYu924oHlvPtbzC8/s320/stoke+to+bagnall+Adams+home_cr.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stoke to Bagnall - a couple of hours walk each way</td></tr>
</tbody></table><br />How young Spode I made his way from Stoke, where he lived, to Bagnall, to play his violin at the 'festivities', we do not know. But most likely on foot or perhaps hitching a ride on a cart.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFyCom7WrlTqIqG4WdAEfdDHon-_pwCayF2xbMYSeHBf7z8hj2OrP_1OjGHG0vrY_bzANKK_M7k-zjHiKAOjnnpv1qmrkrinya5jAdybJR3fWf-u4tZgxq2xhlfYUoY14SBnQYcnpyWU/s1600/Bagnall+Church+1834.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1128" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFyCom7WrlTqIqG4WdAEfdDHon-_pwCayF2xbMYSeHBf7z8hj2OrP_1OjGHG0vrY_bzANKK_M7k-zjHiKAOjnnpv1qmrkrinya5jAdybJR3fWf-u4tZgxq2xhlfYUoY14SBnQYcnpyWU/s320/Bagnall+Church+1834.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bagnall in its Staffordshire Moorlands setting</td></tr>
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Peter Roden** says:<br />
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'No one seems to have attached any significance to this talent in relation to his [Josiah Spode I] other obvious talent in the pottery industry.<br />
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Learning to play the violin is not something that one often learns in later life, and in Spode’s case, the suggestion [from Adams' writing] is that he had developed a local reputation as a violinist <u>before</u> he became famous as a potter. Is it not relevant to consider who might have taught him - after all, having access to violins is not something that one normally associates with eighteenth century paupers?<br />
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Whilst we are never likely to know who actually taught him, or gave him his first access to a musical instrument, we can note that (a) it would have been someone cultured, and (b) it is possible that his musical abilities may have provided his initial introduction to influential potters in his childhood.'<br />
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<br />Peter Roden's research, then, raises intriguing questions about the early life and range of skills of the famous potter and founder of the Spode company. It is also recorded elsewhere that Spode I with his violin was for hire and played for money.</div><div><br /></div><div>I sometimes feel that, born into poverty and the 'man of the family' from the age of 6, he was determined never again to be poor. From a young age he <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/josiah-spode-i-and-thomas-whieldon-in.html" target="_blank">worked hard in the fledgling pottery industry</a>, made money from his accomplished violin playing (you could say he had another string to his bow!), married Ellen Finley, a woman running her own successful little <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://wlv.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/2436/14406/Hamilton%20PhD%20thesis%202007.pdf;jsessionid=09E69B992DB1722A71ABB8A0AC4302E4?sequence=2" target="_blank">haberdashery</a> business, and juggled mortgages and pottery partnerships to be financially safe. It wasn't until he was in his forties, in 1776, that he was able to <a href="https://tldrify.com/zjh" target="_blank">buy his own factory</a> with his son Josiah Spode II. It would seem he had backup plans if anything drastically failed and was determined to be financially sound.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2-yRDb33YkEBXgS56j8X3OX2bcKWzejJlo3rEbGogPOXvRxLqtt0pOzeAbSB_2OdnTAoUxuD6ZExrhiad_Ezv3NBUZbvujIMJrAiLcNeANtd8F6G6q_U7llV2Rfgtn3HZFnsF1a3OYA/s1600/Haberdasehr+V%2526A+2006BB2031_2500_cr_cr.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1600" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2-yRDb33YkEBXgS56j8X3OX2bcKWzejJlo3rEbGogPOXvRxLqtt0pOzeAbSB_2OdnTAoUxuD6ZExrhiad_Ezv3NBUZbvujIMJrAiLcNeANtd8F6G6q_U7llV2Rfgtn3HZFnsF1a3OYA/s320/Haberdasehr+V%2526A+2006BB2031_2500_cr_cr.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=94316&sos=0" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Detail of an haberdasher's trade card (London)</a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">So there we have it, Josiah Spode I not just a master potter but also 'an accomplished violinist'.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">__________</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span>* 'A history of the Adams family of North Staffordshire, & of their connection with the development of the potteries, with numerous pedigree charts & </span>notes on allied families' by P. L. Adams.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbMAPXztzaMDqjNQi6oE4y6rCYZ2h8G2Qk61oHIp6WKn0XjgE5nWH0lLAtlnxYoMZ-R8au-CuKZj1BBEewtiLBkyeag-YGGL0sIhAh44S7S790mIF-1k2_O8O020pln4dgXC355B3Huk/s1219/Adams+family+book+cover_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1219" data-original-width="887" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbMAPXztzaMDqjNQi6oE4y6rCYZ2h8G2Qk61oHIp6WKn0XjgE5nWH0lLAtlnxYoMZ-R8au-CuKZj1BBEewtiLBkyeag-YGGL0sIhAh44S7S790mIF-1k2_O8O020pln4dgXC355B3Huk/w152-h210/Adams+family+book+cover_cr.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white;">**This blogpost is based on detailed research by <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/recommended-reading-4-copyhold-potworks.html" target="_blank">Peter Roden</a>. The subject has always fascinated me and it is wonderful to find out more about the founder of the Spode company from this research. As ever, I thank Peter for sharing his decades of Spode family research with me. I couldn't do this blog without his work. I am in awe of the details and </span><span style="background-color: white;">new</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Spode family (and Spode company) history he discovered over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">For more information enjoy consulting:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">'<i>Josiah Spode (1733-1797): his formative influences and the various Potworks associated with him</i>'<i> </i>is available to consult at the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a>. The publisher's website, the Northern Ceramic Society, can be found by clicking <a href="https://www.northernceramicsociety.org/" target="_blank">NCS</a>. Click <a href="https://tldrify.com/zi2" target="_blank">here</a> for my booklist with more details about <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/recommended-reading-4-copyhold-potworks.html" target="_blank">Roden's publications.</a></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM3Y89p94IScl9v0xctFlTP6_46UTmN96J-y9LGvlGLzySHKVBrn-gSSucYP6VJD8uC0aZtSvL1O7NeFkMxsbI4pTjI9NqNb5_JgCC8CS9_fYsXXdiaZpF0hbnhAtFMS2kxJSmw6cgYw/s2048/copyhold+front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1475" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM3Y89p94IScl9v0xctFlTP6_46UTmN96J-y9LGvlGLzySHKVBrn-gSSucYP6VJD8uC0aZtSvL1O7NeFkMxsbI4pTjI9NqNb5_JgCC8CS9_fYsXXdiaZpF0hbnhAtFMS2kxJSmw6cgYw/w189-h262/copyhold+front.jpg" width="189" /></a></div></div>
</div>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-12335215232456920992020-07-05T14:22:00.000+01:002020-07-05T18:00:53.208+01:00Spode, Copeland and an Old Catalogue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought it would be fun to look at more <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2012/01/spode-and-marketing.html" target="_blank">marketing/sales material </a>from the Spode company.<br />
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So I've chosen, at random, a catalogue of patterns and shapes dated 1882. It was produced during the <a href="https://tldrify.com/z8o" target="_blank">W. T. Copeland & Sons</a> ownership of the Spode factory in Stoke.<br />
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The front cover shows the company has the <a href="https://www.royalwarrant.org/" target="_blank">Royal Warrant</a>. It also shows, in brackets, 'Late Spode & Copeland'. The word 'late' in this context means formerly. The <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/01/spode-logo-and-spode-museum-trust-logo.html" target="_blank">Spode brand</a> had become internationally famous by the late 1700s so it was good business sense for the company to continue to use the name even when owned outright by the Copeland family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title page</td></tr>
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I love the style of the title page with all its different typefaces. More importantly it shows the range of <a href="https://tldrify.com/z8p" target="_blank">wares</a> that was being produced by the factory at this date; and exactly what type of products it was important to advertise. I particularly like 'Useful and Ornamental Wares in Every Variety'. You can't really go wrong with that!<br />
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The pages in the catalogue are not really representative of the excitement of this title page. These types of covers and title pages were used in common for different catalogues, which were then assembled from loose sheets. It was possible therefore to make up a catalogue suitable to a particular type of customer, for example a specialist retailer at home or abroad. This one, for example, does not contain pages of <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/spode-and-tiles.html" target="_blank">tiles</a> or <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/parian-bride-and-mother.html" target="_blank">parian ware</a>.<br />
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Here are some of the inside pages:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed tableware</td></tr>
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Tableware is mostly illustrated by a 10 inch plate which indicates the shape to be used in conjunction with a particular pattern. For tea and coffee wares a teacup or coffee cup is used.<br />
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Design influences include <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/aesops-fables-pattern.html" target="_blank">Aesop's Fables</a>, the Aesthetic Movement, Oriental and Middle Eastern influences, botanical and floral subjects, ruins, rural scenes and more. Most of the patterns are very much in keeping with the date of the catalogue; only a few continued to be produced into the 20th century.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed tableware</td></tr>
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The<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/spode-and-printingand-hogarth.html?showComment=1320919269970" target="_blank"> transfer printed patterns</a> shown in the catalogue were available in a range of colours: black, browns, blues, pink, green etc. These colours are detailed on the catalogue pages showing that the pattern was often not just made in the colour illustrated. Note also the particular descriptions the colours have, for example the blues, to cover the various shades used.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/z8q" target="_blank">A range of Spode blues</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed tableware</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed tableware</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXNDbm43uKVwqT5OGKy_7BHUGkzScUDTFwh4ZicZ7qwvlVDP4fxiLSj4-XW4W8tvClKlgb-TbE39uC8wcmUXEm0aOr89zjIPkrOo6aRPFQl97wpOx8pFscSvesmP-bKDOGXXbOBRAtro4/s1600/Copeland+1882+catalogue+%25288%2529_cr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXNDbm43uKVwqT5OGKy_7BHUGkzScUDTFwh4ZicZ7qwvlVDP4fxiLSj4-XW4W8tvClKlgb-TbE39uC8wcmUXEm0aOr89zjIPkrOo6aRPFQl97wpOx8pFscSvesmP-bKDOGXXbOBRAtro4/s320/Copeland+1882+catalogue+%25288%2529_cr.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed dessert ware patterns & shapes</td></tr>
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On the dessert ware page, above, it is really useful to get full information - the shape name, the pattern name and the colour. Note that the 'grey' pattern at the bottom has faded and should be blue. It is described as Saxon Blue.<br />
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Again on the image above, if you saw the oblong tray (middle) today, would you think to describe it as an 'Ice Cream Tray'? Many objects have lost their true description as fashions and eating habits change. The catalogues are a really useful source to understand food history and dining habits. A useful website for this subject is the <a href="http://www.leedsfoodsymposium.org.uk/" target="_blank">Leeds Food Symposium</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed & hand coloured tableware</td></tr>
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Many patterns offered in this catalogue are 'plain printed' i.e. transfer printed in one colour. Others are printed and hand coloured and sometimes have gilding added too.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOQTjANpL12Tszl-oUvt7u1zb64EcPsVy8QwlVS6Bem4PYIW07t3_zk7NaNJGzlWWdjAfbEfIGmTQZzUbhfMFFPqIvJnBCTwN6Dyu-vC9QbzWTvG1rS3KaXc0yjshicMo7cMkr33nvrw/s1600/Copeland+1882+catalogue+%252810%2529_cr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="910" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOQTjANpL12Tszl-oUvt7u1zb64EcPsVy8QwlVS6Bem4PYIW07t3_zk7NaNJGzlWWdjAfbEfIGmTQZzUbhfMFFPqIvJnBCTwN6Dyu-vC9QbzWTvG1rS3KaXc0yjshicMo7cMkr33nvrw/s320/Copeland+1882+catalogue+%252810%2529_cr.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed toiletware</td></tr>
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<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/01/spode-and-hot-water.html" target="_blank">Toiletware</a> is mostly illustrated by a ewer and basin combination which indicates the shape to be used in conjunction with a particular pattern.<br />
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In the above image, the 'brush vase' illustrated to the left of the central ewer and basin is for toothbrushes and has a stand. The vase seen in isolation today is often regarded as a mystery. It has holes in the bottom! Divorced from its context, as well as its stand, a vase with holes in the bottom rarely makes sense...<br />
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Brush vases also came without holes in the bottom so looked like a normal small vase. They often suffered the evils of dirty water and remnants of dribble remaining in the base from the draining toothbrush. Unpleasant!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed toiletware</td></tr>
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If you did not want a 'brush vase' then you could choose a toothbrush box or, as it is described in the image above, a 'brush tray'. These came with or without lids and often had ridges moulded into the base so your toothbrush was not sitting in stale water from its drips. However neither version would be very hygienic. The brushes would be made of natural materials at this time and sitting wet for a while would invite bacteria.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYzlbelMtoMvW4kZfoIJgVG-HdBx7GFCiA6y20oZRAPoCZUszE22oK03Mt78x9FRA0wPjOEiOQH3GoA-9CdyxXOIY-4jVhiITMg5RTZMW9A2fTJDQ5k7ZOpCK6BFlUCwp8QfM6j5JTI8/s1600/015_cr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="910" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYzlbelMtoMvW4kZfoIJgVG-HdBx7GFCiA6y20oZRAPoCZUszE22oK03Mt78x9FRA0wPjOEiOQH3GoA-9CdyxXOIY-4jVhiITMg5RTZMW9A2fTJDQ5k7ZOpCK6BFlUCwp8QfM6j5JTI8/s320/015_cr.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed toiletware... and candlesticks</td></tr>
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The toiletware page above also includes candlesticks. Both are 'Stoke' shape - one is a pillar candlestick and the other, on the right, a flat candlestick and extinguisher. Note the correct use of the word 'extinguisher' not snuffer. The extinguisher is a beautiful little conical shaped bit of pottery which sits loose over a stump fixed to the tray. Most of these candlesticks and matching extinguishers have now become separated and, as antiques, are found individually.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed & hand coloured toilet & tableware, Primrose pattern</td></tr>
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The manufacture of toiletware was very important for the pottery industry and made in vast quantities. Around the 1920s production gradually began to decline as houses improved and Public Health Acts led to the inclusion of a bathroom in new properties. Much toiletware was destroyed. In the 1970s a revival of interest in antique pieces of toiletware for ornamental use took place. Chamber pots and ewers were particularly popular often used to hold a plant or flower arrangement. Reproductions were also made at this time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Useful and Ornamental Wares in Every Variety'</td></tr>
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The catalogue page above has a lot going on: Toiletware, Fruit Baskets, Umbrella Stands, Can and Stand (for coffee), Cup and Saucer (for tea) and, yes, that is a bone china Revolving Tray with accompanying Tea Set which is described as Tottenham [shape].<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China Tottenham Set Revolving Tray</td></tr>
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The umbrellas stands are gorgeous. That on the left is earthenware with a Classical Greek influenced pattern; the one on the right is <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china</a> with an elaborate <a href="https://tldrify.com/z9w" target="_blank">Imari</a> pattern and gilding. See details below about 1 over and 2 over pattern numbers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Umbrella Stand, Imari style</td></tr>
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Below is a rather poor photocopy of a price list for this catalogue. However, I thought it was worth showing.<br />
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Prices were rarely included in the illustrated catalogue but provided as a separate, pamphlet or loose sheets. Prices could change whereas the pots didn't. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Price List of Goods </td></tr>
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It is not clear exactly what sort of price list this but I believe it is most likely produced for the retailer as the word 'scale' is used in association with the column of prices. This scale price would not be understood by an individual customer i.e. the end user otherwise known as you and me. But for the retailer this is the key to pricing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of a generic list of scale prices date unknown</td></tr>
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For the retailers a separate book of scales was supplied to work it all out (sometimes published industry wide). Using the scale price list enabled the prices of all the different pieces to be calculated. For example, with a scale price for a 10 inch plate in a particular <a href="https://tldrify.com/z9j" target="_blank">body</a>, shape and pattern the price of a teapot in the same body, shape and pattern could be looked up. Complicated! I still haven't grasped it completely.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Table Ware & Toilet Ware'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Toilet Ware, Dessert Ware & Enamelled Goods'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Enamelled Ware'</td></tr>
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'Enamelled Goods/Ware' refers to the patterns which were printed and hand coloured. The word enamelled does not appear in the Spode archive papers or in the terminology that was used on the factory very often but was used industry wide.<br />
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In both the catalogue and price list <a href="https://tldrify.com/z94" target="_blank">pattern numbers</a> are sometimes included. Some have a 1 above the number denoting bone china; those with a 2 above the number denotes earthenware. These are known as the '1 over' numbers and the '2 over' numbers. There are also some O pattern numbers denoting a range of Ornamental patterns and some D numbers which predate the 1 and 2 over numbers. Spode pattern numbers and their dates of introduction are detailed in <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/12/recommended-reading-3-spode-copeland.html" target="_blank">'Spode & Copeland Marks & Other Relevant Intelligence'</a>.</div>
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-27726950151964544452020-06-01T14:16:00.000+01:002020-06-01T14:16:04.979+01:00Spode's pattern 1100 and Curtis's Botanical Magazine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Narcissus major: Curtis's Magazine 1788; Spode dessert plate c1808</td></tr>
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Readers of this blog will know that I am not only fond of Spode (and all ceramics) but also love botanical illustration. When the two combine I am very happy.<br />
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On this blog post I am going to feature more <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/spode-desserts-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank">dessert service</a> pieces decorated with Spode's pattern number 1100. This design was first recorded in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">pattern books</a> in about 1808.<br />
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Pattern 1100 combines Spode's very white and translucent bone china, with a classical style gilded border. The design features different handpainted '<i>Bottanic plants in Centre</i>'* on every piece of a service with more than one subject on larger pieces.<br />
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The botanical subjects were taken from <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/spodes-pattern-2789.html" target="_blank">Curtis's Botanical Magazine</a>. I have also written more widely on the subject of Spode and Curtis's Botanical Magazine in my article <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8748.00349" target="_blank">Flora Ceramica</a>.**<br />
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Pattern 1100 was produced on Spode's <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china</a>, still a fairly new invention at that time, but which was an immediate success with Spode's well-to-do customers. For those with a passion for flowers and all things botanical, as well as enough money, this was a perfect pattern to show off their wealth and knowledge and, at the same time, serve up fabulous desserts!<br />
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The image at the top shows '<i>Narcissus Major. Great Daffodil</i>' from <i>Curtis's Botanical Magazine </i>dated 1788 and a Spode plate from a dessert service in pattern 1100 which is handpainted with the same subject. You can now view <i>Curtis's Botanical Magazine </i>volumes online at the fantastic <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/307#/summary" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).</a><br />
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I have kept the Latin names as they appear in Curtis. Some plants may have been reclassified since publication in the late 1700s.<br />
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So, it's time for more Spode pieces with their corresponding pages from <i>Curtis's Botanical Magazine</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mesembryanthemum barbatum 1789***</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Sisyrinchium iridiodes 1789</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisyrinchium iridiodes - available in 2 versions!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Lathyrus tingitanus 1789</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tradescantia virginica 1789</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cassia diamaecrista 1790</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fumaria glauca 1792</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring crocus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring crocus 1788</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus lividus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus lividus 1789</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shell shaped serving dish. Convolvulus purpureus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Convolvulus purpureus 1790</td></tr>
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Along with the plates there would have been centrepieces, comports (both 'tall' and 'low'), sets of shaped serving dishes, and pairs of cream and sugar tureens. Usually at this period the arrangement of the table would have set out in a formal manner. You can find more images of and information about Spode's dessert services dotted about this blog. Here are a few useful links:<br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/spode-desserts-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank">Spode, Desserts and Pyramids</a><br />
<a href="http://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/10/spode-and-pineapples.html" target="_blank">Spode and Pineapples</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-little-dish.html" target="_blank">Spode and a Little Dish</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/spode-and-landscapes.html" target="_blank">Spode and Landscapes</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/07/spode-and-ice.html" target="_blank">Spode and Ice</a><br />
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* Instructions as written on the pattern book page<br />
** '<i>Flora Ceramica</i>', Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 19 Part 3, August 2002, published by Blackwell, ISBN 1355-4905<br />
*** NB the dates in the image captions are for the Curtis's Botanical Magazine unless otherwise stated. The pots date from about 1808 but before 1833.<br />
<br />Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-51634623971635371972020-05-01T11:29:00.000+01:002020-05-01T11:33:10.079+01:00Spode and May <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, <i>Fruit and Flowers </i>pattern c1826</td></tr>
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So why am I blogging about and showing an image of a pattern called <i>Fruit and Flowers </i>when the title of this post is <i>Spode and May</i>?<br />
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Read on...<br />
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<i>Fruit and Flowers</i> pattern has its first record in a <a href="https://tldrify.com/y96" target="_blank">pattern book</a> in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2020/01/spode-and-b-book.html" target="_blank">B Book</a> where it is recorded as pattern number B139. This is thought to date from c1826. It is possible B139 had extra colour added to the print but the record is not clear. It is likely that the introduction of a plain print i.e. no added colour was around this date too. This is what is seen in the picture of a plate, above, where it is printed underglaze in blue.<br />
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If you look at the design you tend to focus on the centre featuring the vase but the fruit and flowers are in the border design.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Border detail</td></tr>
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The pattern remained popular throughout the 19th century. The name change came at the end of the 1800s. On 14th December 1892 the original <i>Fruit and Flowers</i> pattern was registered with the British Patent Office under the name of <i>May.</i> It had the registered number 204192. Some registration number records are now online on the <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/designregisters/reg_date.asp?page=15&cat_id=0&type_id=0&o_by=1" target="_blank">National Archives website</a>.<br />
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The pattern was also produced in the first half of the 20th century. It was later reintroduced as part of Spode's <i>Blue Room Collection</i> in the late 1990s as one of the <i>Regency Dresser Plates</i> as well as on an oval teapot in 1998. Many of Spode's old blue printed patterns and some of the old shapes from the early 1800s enjoyed a revival in the 1990s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp, dated 2000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oval teapot, <i>May </i>pattern 1998</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Room booklet, front 1990s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Room booklet, back 1990s</td></tr>
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The booklet about the Blue Room Collection was rather beautifully produced and the range was strongly marketed... although not everything included in the text was historically correct!<br />
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N.B. The name of this pattern can be confusing! The <i>Fruit and Flowers</i> name was also re-used to describe other patterns which were entirely different in design.Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-2469300746480557442020-04-05T10:36:00.000+01:002020-04-05T10:50:33.935+01:00Spode and AprilIt is April 2020 and the world is in the middle of a terrible pandemic of a coronavirus known as COVID-19.<br />
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But I am still blogging about Spode and will try to do a short post each month.<br />
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So, for the month of April what better than to choose<i> April </i>shape?<br />
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This was a fairly short-lived shape design. It was introduced in about 1964 and probably discontinued in the early 1970s or even before that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, <i>Hamilton </i>pattern c1964</td></tr>
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<i>Hamilton </i>pattern is one of the best known on <i>April </i>shape. It has pattern number S3379 and was first introduced in 1964. It is on a two-tone earthenware made from the <a href="https://tldrify.com/xwd" target="_blank">English Lavender</a> and Imperial (ivory) bodies. The pattern was printed in black and coloured <a href="https://tldrify.com/xwj" target="_blank">underglaze </a>in blue and purple.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cup, saucer & plate, <i>Hamilton </i>pattern</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp on plate</td></tr>
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<i>April </i>shape was developed from two other existing shapes: <i>Gerrard </i>shape <a href="https://tldrify.com/xwh" target="_blank">flatware</a> and <i>Tean</i> shape <a href="https://tldrify.com/xwi" target="_blank">hollow ware</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catalogue page, <a href="https://tldrify.com/xwg" target="_blank">English Lavender,</a> showing <i>Gerrard </i>& <i>Tean </i>shapes 1959</td></tr>
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Teasets in <i>Hamilton </i>pattern were promoted as 'premium gifts' by the UK manufacturer of the washing-up liquid called <i>Ola</i>. The pattern has registered number 915427 which registered the design with the British Patent Office on 3rd March 1964. It is registered as a design for <a href="https://www.colgatepalmolive.com/en-us/about/history" target="_blank">Colgate-Palmolive</a>.<br />
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(There was also another pattern called <i>Hamilton </i>in the 1920s which was different from the 1964 version).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Barbecue </i>pattern, <i>Tricorn </i>shape, pattern S3244 c1957</td></tr>
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<i>April </i>shape sometimes replaced the modern looking <i>Tricorn </i>shape which sold well in the UK but not overseas. This happened, for example, in the more traditional Australian and New Zealand markets. The example shown here is for <i><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2012/06/spode-and-barbecue.html" target="_blank">Barbecue</a> </i>pattern but on another round shape called <i>Coupe </i>shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Barbecue </i>pattern on a round shape (sorry, black & white photo)</td></tr>
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<br />Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-31694073187739869402020-03-23T15:48:00.000+00:002020-03-23T16:20:14.709+00:00Josiah Spode I - Birthday or Baptism?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Josiah Spode I (1733-1797)</td></tr>
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Usually on March 23rd I tweet and/or blog about of <a href="https://tldrify.com/xsb" target="_blank">Josiah Spode I</a>'s birthday. He was the founder of the famous Spode pottery manufacturing company.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode I's signature</td></tr>
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But recently I have been having doubts about this date. Looking back at my research notes and various books on Spode I realised that rarely does the precise date of his birth arise. The date of his baptism does... and to make thing doubly confusing that is often written as either 23rd or 25th March 1733. Was I missing something obvious?<br />
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This prompted me to have an email chat with Peter Roden - a direct descendant of Samuel Spode (1757-1817), who was the younger son of Josiah Spode I.<br />
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Roden is responsible for most of the detailed and up-to-date research into the Spode family history, conducted over many, many years. He has kindly shared it with me over the years for which I am eternally grateful. His careful, detailed work has brought new insight not just into the wider Spode family but also into the history of the Spode company and its associated pottery factories. Go to my <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/booklist-for-spode-enthusiasts.html" target="_blank">booklist</a> and look under Roden for details of his publications.*<br />
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Peter's response to my initial email made me feel better as he wrote '<i>This is an interesting and challenging question!</i>'<br />
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Not all the books on Spode are reliable but both of us it seems had, with some justification, trusted some of the standard works on Spode for the birthday of its founder and then concentrated on other areas of the Spode family and business which needed new research.<br />
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Both Peter and I have now moved onto other things but he kindly looked for some confirmation in resources he had to hand.</div>
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The document below, which Peter believes is probably a copy of the Bishop's Transcript, rather than the original register, details the baptism record of Spode I. You can see the entry at the end of the Baptisms and just above the Funerals. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baptisms & Funerals 1733</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baptism details Josiah Spode I</td></tr>
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In the details of the register you can see why 23 has been mistaken for 25 but from detailed inspection both Peter and I believe it is definitely 23. Compare the 3 to other 3's in the list an also look at the date order.<br />
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So we are no further on with a birth date, although it is possible he could have been born and baptised on the same day I believe.<br />
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If anyone has any further information please contact me via Twitter @PamWoolliscroft and, after the end of the current crisis in 2020 of COVID-19, I hope to be able to follow this up further... and make any updates throughout this blog.<br />
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*Review/details of one of his books 'Copyhold Potworks & Housing in the Staffordshire Potteries 1700-1832' can be found <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/recommended-reading-4-copyhold-potworks.html" target="_blank">HERE></a>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-28726077848326229552020-03-11T14:52:00.000+00:002020-03-11T19:26:58.831+00:00Spode and more Royal Jade... and mask jugs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A while ago I wrote a blogpost about <i>Royal Jade</i>. You can find it by clicking <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/spode-and-royal-jade.html" target="_blank">Spode and Royal Jade</a>. There is also more information on my Spode ABC which you can find on the <a href="https://tldrify.com/xni" target="_blank">P-R page</a>.<br />
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However I have been given the opportunity to share some photos of a jug and bowl currently (March 2020) <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Art-Deco-1930s-Spode-s-Royal-Jade-Wash-Jug-Bowl-GREEN-TURQUOISE/202872170633?hash=item2f3c1fa889:g:rSYAAOSwGJVeFJhh" target="_blank">on sale on eBay</a> - thank you to the seller.<br />
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And in this blogpost, as usual, I also go off at some tangents...<br />
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The two items of <i>Royal Jade</i> on eBay are a jug and bowl and are shown as a 'wash set'. This is not a combination I have found in this range but of course Spode made a great deal of <a href="https://tldrify.com/xnq" target="_blank">toiletware </a>over the years. <i>Royal Jade</i> usually seems to be used for decorative items, or small useful items such as ashtrays and candlesticks, so I suspect that this is a pair of normally unconnected pieces which go really well together. I think they are lovely.<br />
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I have seen the bowl before and it features on the cover of a <i>Royal Jade</i> leaflet of 1934. It has <i>Royal Jade</i> shape number J53 and the shape name <i>Osborne Bowl</i>. It was available in 3 sizes: 7", 8" and 9".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Royal Jade </i>7" Osborne Bowl</td></tr>
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The jug, though, I have not seen. I have not spotted it in the <i>Royal Jade</i> leaflet either. It is interesting to see that this new range of wares in the 1930s used antique as well as new shapes. The jug is often described as a mask jug. It is a style made by Spode and other manufacturers in the early 1800s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Royal Jade</i> mask jug</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp on jug</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/spode-mask-face-jug-pitcher-botanical-1693467314" target="_blank">Spode mask jug, <i>Botanical </i>pattern, c1828</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mask jug, <a href="https://tldrify.com/xnk" target="_blank">Copeland & Garrett</a> c1838-1847</td></tr>
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I have included the 2 antique mask jugs for comparison.<br />
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The Copeland & Garrett one is badged with arms and with a motto: '<i>Manners Maketh Man</i>'. Its backstamp includes G. Savage Winton as well as the Copeland & Garrett mark. I think, but haven't researched it fully, that the badge is probably for New College Oxford; and that the name G. Savage refers to the caterer who supplied not only the meals for colleges but also the tableware. Spode supplied other caterers with tableware for their services to other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. (Peter Stovin has researched and written about this subject extensively, for an example click <a href="https://tldrify.com/xno" target="_blank">here></a>.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of badge, '<i>Manners Maketh Man</i>'</td></tr>
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-80389172428831366672020-03-01T11:52:00.001+00:002020-03-01T11:52:34.964+00:00Spode and Alenite<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Game Pie Dish, Alenite, 'Henri IV' c1963</td></tr>
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In the late 18th/early 19th century the Spodes were constantly developing their skills and experimenting with new techniques in pottery manufacture, then still in its infancy. Striving for new products of the highest quality became synonymous with the Spode name. The development/invention of <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china</a> is one of Spode's most famous achievements. That desire to continue to experiment and produce high quality, innovative ceramic product continued up until the early 2000s.<br />
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A new idea in the ceramic industry in the mid-20th century was for reliable ovenproof ceramics. Hence my interest in Spode's <i>Alenite.</i> It was the name given to a short-lived <a href="https://tldrify.com/xcf" target="_blank">pottery body</a> developed to be 'ovenproof'. It's the type of ceramic which became known as 'oven-to-tableware'.<br />
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With <i>Alenite </i>I am fascinated by the strange combination of the old and the new. Here was <i>Alenite, </i>at the forefront of ceramic innovation, and yet its shapes followed the design of moulded game pie dishes of the 1800s; and the main range produced in <i>Alenite</i> had the obscure name of <i>Henri IV. </i>I would have loved to have been at the board meeting that came up with the name! What were they thinking?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">Copeland</a> Game Pie Dish imitating pastry 1887</td></tr>
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The original Game Pie Dishes were intended to imitate pastry pies by using an unglazed <a href="https://tldrify.com/xci" target="_blank">caneware</a> body which looked just like pastry. The Copeland one shown here of 1887 was glazed inside to hold the pie filling but older ones, such as the Spode one below, of about 1800, had a separate, removable, glazed, inner dish which held the filling. The inner dish is not visible in the photo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode Game Pie Dish imitating pastry c1800</td></tr>
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Derived from one of Spode's famous pottery bodies, <a href="https://tldrify.com/xcg" target="_blank">Fine Stone,</a> <i>Alenite </i>was developed to be specifically suitable for ovenproof ware with experiments starting in about 1957. The name was created to recognise the alumina base of the formula and to honour Spode's Chief Chemist, Cyril Allen, who developed it. Initially produced only in the familiar grey of the Fine Stone body, a white version was also produced, discontinued before the grey, at an unknown date but probably before 1970.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaflet: 'Spode Henri IV', 1963</td></tr>
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The 1963 leaflet above for Henri IV [sometimes seen as Henry IV] design is entitled:<br />
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'<i>From Oven to Top Table for Gourmets and Smart Hostesses</i>'.</div>
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I always a good bit of marketing blurb!<br />
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A range of plates, pie dishes, game pie dishes, covered soup bowl and stand, round salad bowl and teacup & saucer are detailed. This range continues to be seen in Spode's UK catalogues until about 1966.<br />
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Patterns chosen for a new range of plainer, modern-looking <i>Alenite </i>shapes were the old favourites such as <i><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-and-italian.html" target="_blank">Italian</a> </i>pattern. So presumably the Spode company expected that the customers, who already favoured traditional Spode patterns for tableware, would be the ones interested in the new ovenproof body. Now they would be able to serve cooked food, in dishes which matched their dinner service, straight from the oven to the table. In particular these patterns would be aimed at Spode's main customer base, North America, which was traditional in taste.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaflet: 'Alenite flameproof ovenware' c1960s</td></tr>
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The leaflet illustrated above, 'Alenite flameproof ovenware', shows patterns <i>Luneville </i>and <i>Blue Italian.</i> The K prefix to the numbers indicates a shape number and most of these were first recorded in about 1964 and 1965.<br />
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The marketing blurb in the red leaflet illustrated below states that:<br />
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<i>'There's no doubt of Alenite's proud </i><i>Spode </i><i>origins when you look at the clear whiteness of the body material and fine smooth finish of the glaze. Bring it to the table and your Alenite is charmingly attractive. Better still match it to a full dinner service from the Spode range of earthenware in the same patterns.'</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stew Pot, Alenite, <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/spode-and-trade-winds.html" target="_blank">Trade Winds pattern</a> c1964-1970</td></tr>
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Some of the patterns available on the modern, plain shape in white <i>Alenite </i>as well as <i>Blue Italian</i> were:<i> Blue Bird</i>,<i> Luneville</i>, (also known as <i>Marlborough Sprays</i>),<i> Apples</i>,<i> Dauphine</i><i> </i>and <i>Pacifico</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaflet: 'Alenite flameproof ovenware' c1970</td></tr>
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The red leaflet above also includes a phrase very much of its time:<br />
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<i>'Flameware so new, so remarkable and so beautiful</i><br />
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In 2006, whilst curator of the Spode museum, I was lucky enough to be able to discuss <i>Alenite</i> with the always helpful Mike Dutton of Spode's Technical Department, who told me:<br />
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"<i>Alenite</i> formulations contained high levels of alumina (22-25%). In addition the <a href="https://tldrify.com/xhv" target="_blank">flux</a> system was one based on lithia. These materials gave high physical strength and low <a href="https://tldrify.com/xhu" target="_blank">thermal expansion</a> - both needed for good <a href="https://tldrify.com/xhx" target="_blank">thermal shock</a> performance and an excellent product for oven-to-tableware.<br />
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This formulation continued into the 1970s but the <i>Alenite </i>marketing name had been dropped by then and it was referred to simply as stoneware. <i>Alenite </i>products and the stone china derivatives will [2006] continue to give good oven-to-tableware service.<br />
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The difficulties with <i>Alenite </i>formulations were two-fold. The material costs were extremely high and the thermal expansion characteristics made <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_617092133"></span>glaze fit <span id="goog_617092134"></span></a>demanding (crazing even in the warehouse was not unknown). The following years therefore saw continuing change to the product until it was a simple <a href="https://tldrify.com/xht" target="_blank">vitreous</a> body still adequate for oven-to-tableware but 'technically not so good' as the <i>Alenite</i>.<br />
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Eventually the cookware ranges were transferred to [Spode's] sister company Worcester Porcelain for commercial reasons."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Casserole, Alenite, Sussex shape, <i>Dauphine</i> c1964</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp for <i>Dauphine </i>pattern </td></tr>
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Following the success of <a href="https://tldrify.com/xck" target="_blank"><i>Royal College shape</i></a> for a modern bone china range it was suggested that a modern shape for earthenware also be developed. <i>Sussex</i> shape was introduced in about 1964 on the earthenware body.<br />
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Two patterns were designed for the shape: <i>Dauphine </i>with pattern number S3381 and <i>Pacifico </i>with pattern number S3382. They were marketed as the <i>Lumina </i>range. Oven-to-tableware pieces accompanied them on the <i>Alenite </i>body.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Casseroles, Alenite, Sussex shape, <i>Pacifico </i>c1965</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamp for <i>Pacifico </i>pattern; B denotes 1965 </td></tr>
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Sadly neither the shape nor the patterns were a success for Spode. As mentioned above Spode's biggest market in North America preferred traditional patterns and shapes. Little was exported, although the shape was sold into Canada and into the home market i.e. the UK.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <a href="https://tldrify.com/xcl" target="_blank">backstamp</a> for Alenite with Copeland name 1960s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <a href="https://tldrify.com/xcl" target="_blank">backstamp</a> for white Alenite, no Copeland name 1960s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Alenite, Henri IV 1960s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cream or sugar tureen, cover & stand, pattern 1926 c1813</td></tr>
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It's no secret I love flower patterns on Spode, particularly <a href="https://tldrify.com/x4p" target="_blank">botanical illustrations </a>in the early 1800s. But to be fair, Spode decoration embraced all subjects. The company employed highly skilled designers, artists and painters who covered all requirements.<br />
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In the early 1800s a <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/spode-desserts-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank">dessert service</a> was a 'top-of-the-range' product from Spode aimed at well-to-do customers. The services comprised dozens, sometimes hundreds of pieces. Each item would be decorated with one, or more, different subjects within a theme. This theme could be <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-little-dish.html" target="_blank">flower groups</a>, <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/spodes-pattern-2789.html" target="_blank">botanical subjects</a>, <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/07/spode-and-ice.html" target="_blank">birds,</a> shells or landscapes. Whatever the subject of the design such a service would create an impact, a statement on status and a great conversation piece.<br />
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Featured here is pattern 1926 of about 1813. It is bone china, <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-little-dish.html" target="_blank">'<i>Flower Embossed</i>'</a> shape and every landscape or view is handpainted in a rustic style following the fashion of the pastoral style popular at the time. The views are named on the reverse in beautiful handpainted script.<br />
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At the top is a cream or sugar tureen shown complete with its cover and stand. They were usually supplied in pairs for a dessert service. The one illustrated here has 5 different views, so two would have had 10 different handpainted landscapes. Quite a feat painting in stages in colours which needed to be fired at different temperatures and were not true till after firing. A <a href="https://tldrify.com/x4q" target="_blank">muffle kiln</a> was used for firing colours and gold.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>View near Norton, Staffordshire</i>'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover, '<i>View near Stone</i> [Staffordshire]' (ruin)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Cover, '<i>View near Wales</i>' (bridge)</td></tr>
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The scenes include quaint rural cottages, bridges, rivers and castles. It is likely the artists used prints as their source for this little tour around England and Wales. You will notice there are some views in Staffordshire - the county in which the Spode manufactory was situated.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert plate, '<i>View at Whitmore, Staffordshire</i>'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert plate, '<i>Cottages near Harrowgate</i> [sic]' Yorkshire</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert serving dish, '<i>View near Hodnet, Staffordshire</i>'</td></tr>
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The shell shaped dessert dish above would probably be one of 4 in the service. And, yes you've guessed it, each painted with a different landscape. Note the lovely gilding to the handle.</div>
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Another landscape design can be seen in this sugar box above. It was part of a tea service. Again it is bone china but this time it is painted in monochrome and finished with elegant gilding. The shape is known as '<i>New Oval</i>' shape. 4 different scenes were used for this piece but they are not named. All pieces of the tea service, like the dessert services, would have featured different landscapes.<br />
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So, this blogpost could go on forever as I haven't even touched on the hundreds of <a href="http://spodeceramics.com/pottery/printed-designs/patterns/european-mediterranean" target="_blank">transfer printed patterns</a> and <a href="https://tldrify.com/x4s" target="_blank">bat printed </a>patterns... the latter imitating the monochrome handpainted patterns as above in pattern 382.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saucer, bone china, bat printed and gilded, pattern 558 c1804</td></tr>
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To finish I really felt I should feature the pattern with the name '<i>Landscape</i>'. This was the pattern name for a <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/spode-and-printingand-hogarth.html?showComment=1320919269970" target="_blank">transfer printed</a> Chinoiserie design. Produced in several versions this one is recorded as pattern 2857 of about 1820. It is on <a href="https://tldrify.com/x4t" target="_blank">Stone China</a> body. It is printed and handcoloured. The pattern was first introduced in the early 1800s as a plain print. It was aimed at those who loved Chinese porcelain and the Chinoiserie style.Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-40691654290646285902020-01-11T12:02:00.001+00:002020-01-11T17:00:02.634+00:00Spode and the B Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soup plate, handpainted, pattern B1 c1823</td></tr>
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The B Book is just one of many pattern books in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive.</a><br />
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About 75,000 patterns are recorded in the <a href="https://tldrify.com/wwa" target="_blank">Spode pattern books.</a> As the Spode company grew and more and more patterns were recorded, different series of patterns were given different prefixes. The first series has no prefix. Many series run from 1-9999 which means that most have many books in them.*<br />
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Some series are shorter and only have a few volumes. The B series has just one. The patterns in the B Book are given a number prefixed with B running from B1 to B959. As usual, dating Spode patterns exactly is difficult but the B Book is thought to date from c1823 to c1848. **<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, pattern B107, printed & hand coloured c1825</td></tr>
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Although I say that there is one B Book this refers to the main volume. There is also a pocket-sized book*** of B patterns containing some of the B patterns which are occasionally out of order. Errors, which were known at the time, are corrected on a different page. It was perhaps for use as a traveller's book i.e. a salesman. And also some loose, unbound sheets of some of the patterns in the B900s. Multiple copies of pattern sheets were usually made so there would be a master copy, some for use on the factory (during various manufacturing processes to ensure consistency in production) and some to go to the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2016/08/spode-and-showing-off.html" target="_blank">London Showroom</a>, etc. These loose sheets were, or were not, later bound into books.<br />
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So, what exactly are the B patterns?<br />
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The significance of patterns prefixed with a B is that the pattern, whether printed, handpainted or a combination of both, was decorated completely <a href="https://tldrify.com/wwb" target="_blank">underglaze</a>.<br />
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The type of patterns in the B Book is difficult to sum up as at first glance they seem such an odd mixture. The original purpose of their differentiation was simply to show they were decorated all underglaze so no mistakes were made in manufacture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/12/recommended-reading-3-spode-copeland.html" target="_blank">Plate, pattern B68, handpainted in blues and yellow c1824</a></td></tr>
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The designs vary from the elegant handpainted border design of B1, loosely painted patterns with bold brushstrokes like B68 to printed and hand coloured patterns, like B107 which is described as '<i>Ivy border on Parsley shee</i>t'. Pattern B1 is handpainted in a neat design but other B patterns are much more free and loose in style and, without any <a href="https://tldrify.com/wxa" target="_blank">backstamp</a>, may not even be considered as from the Spode factory. The black and white photo of a plate in pattern B68 shows this looser style with free brush strokes (sorry, poor photo). B68 is painted in shades of blue with yellow and this style of design is now rarely seen and identified as Spode.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Gadroon shape, pattern B111, '<i>Trophies-Marble</i>' c1826</td></tr>
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Many B patterns will actually be familiar to collectors of <a href="https://www.transcollectorsclub.org/" target="_blank">transfer printed wares</a> as plain prints i.e. decorated only in one colour, often blue. These familiar patterns produced as B patterns include B111, B118 and B176. But many will not realise that these are recorded in the B Book when no pattern number is on the object. These will just be thought of as the plain printed version with a bit of added colour. The beauty of finding any object recorded anywhere in the Spode archive is that it helps to date it.<br />
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B111 is a version of '<i>Trophies-Marble</i>' pattern. It was printed in blue and hand coloured all underglaze. Its unique number would prevent any mix up in the customer orders which could occur if only a pattern name was used. It is quite possible for many, many versions of a pattern to be produced in different colourways. Other transfer printed patterns e.g. '<i>Italian</i>' were also produced with added colour but in its <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/spode-and-italianwith-added-colour.html" target="_blank">most familiar version, pattern 2614,</a> '<i>Italian</i>'<i> </i>is printed underglaze and then painted and gilded <a href="https://tldrify.com/wy4" target="_blank">onglaze</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Gadroon shape, pattern B118 '<i>Jasmine</i>' c1826</td></tr>
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B118 is a pattern known as '<a href="https://tldrify.com/wwd" target="_blank"><i>Jasmine</i></a>.' Again often produced as a plain print i.e. just one colour, usually blue, here it is accented with hand colouring and again allocated its unique pattern number so no mix up can occur.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jqLdj_9Ua0MNAh_Y1eLMjtgtiP2A6dlXx9vNKsMPgQecxUTKs_cRcdXxNZCezr6ARd2ylfx-2L6D2wlNQiL3jHvVkPIjN_8OxKOpxR76zU5qIhXCz3UHxlpkRRjkc88Hw6z5tTIdpyE/s1600/B118+Jasmine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, '<i>Blue Rose</i>' border, pattern B176 c1826</td></tr>
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Pattern B176 is printed in green and then hand coloured in green. The border is from a pattern called '<i>Blue Rose</i>' which, as you see, could be produced in other colours than its title would suggest. The usual floral centre has been replaced by a badge for the East Kent Yeomanry. Badged wares were specially commissioned and could be for any customer from King to a shipping line. Ware for regiments was big business for Spode.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, '<i>Cotton Sprigs</i>', pattern B362 c1832</td></tr>
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Pattern B362 is a very pretty transfer printed design with a light fresh look and is reminiscent of ladies dress patterns of the period. It is printed in 2 colours in this case brown and green. Other colourways are recorded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/wy5" target="_blank">Dessert plate, pattern B364 c1832</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert dish, pattern B364 c1832</td></tr>
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Pattern B364 first recorded in c1832 has botanical centres taken from <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/spode-and-botanical-designs.html" target="_blank">'<i>Curtis's Botanical Magazine</i>'</a>. It is transfer printed in green. More of the magazine can be seen here online from the brilliant <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7351#page/12/mode/1up" target="_blank">BHL</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden seat, pattern B516, Copeland & Garrett c1838</td></tr>
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This garden seat, in pattern B516, is another example of a pattern printed and hand coloured. It is a <a href="https://tldrify.com/wwc" target="_blank">sheet pattern</a>. The background design is known as '<i>Thyme</i>' sheet. Pattern B516 was also used as decoration for toilet ware. Other colourways are recorded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bidet in stand, pattern B516, Copeland & Garrett c1838</td></tr>
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Covers to bidet stands usually fit superbly, sliding snugly down over it. The cabinets are exquisitely made often in mahogany. This bidet and its cabinet are in a location (which I will not name) as the cover's use is now as a plinth for an unconnected wash basin with a bunch of lavender in it. I suspect few will know from this display its original and proper use...<br />
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B773 show a printed pattern in flow blue. This was a style of decoration particularly popular and successful in North America and was exported in quantity in different designs through the Hudson Bay Company during the 19th century. The Spode factory, under Copeland & Garrett and later W. T. Copeland, had a monopoly with the Hudson Bay Company from c1835 to 1872. Flow blue was not popular in the UK but also sold well in Europe.<br />
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The pattern book page for B773 can be found <a href="https://www.transcollectorsclub.org/annex/image-gallery/copeland-lectures/copeland-lecture-hudson-bay-co-1993/36-hbc-trc-3898/" target="_blank">here></a>.<br />
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Although the B Book records patterns decorated completely underglaze it is contemporary with other pattern books which also include underglaze patterns. There is some overlap. So researching in the Spode pattern books is never straightforward and it is worth remembering the records were made for a business, produced to aid the manufacture of pottery, and not for the use of historians, researchers and collectors.<br />
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I think it is an interesting book for researchers and collectors as there are so many surprising patterns in it. Just when you think you know the style of designs that Spode produced in the early 1800s the B Book makes you think again...<br />
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*For more details on how the pattern books developed and their dates see Robert Copeland's marvellous book: <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/12/recommended-reading-3-spode-copeland.html" target="_blank">'Spode & Copeland Marks & Other Relevant Intelligence'</a>,
Studio Vista, 2nd edition 1997 ISBN 0 289 80069 2<br />
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The relevant pages are 117-124 from where the image of B68 is also taken.<br />
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Since publication, new information has come to light about the discovery of another pattern book in 1988 (in a private collection; p117-118) originally thought to be Spode but which is now thought <i>not </i>to be Spode.<br />
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**There are some pages in the B Book with patterns prefixed with C. Some sheets seem to have been bound in by mistake; and others seem to have had the the C prefix by mistake or... are actually C patterns in the wrong book. The C Book is a pattern book recording handpainted designs which are described by Robert Copeland as 'cheap and cheerful' and date from 1845-1870.<br />
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*** A full comparison between the B Book and the small B Book was done by the late Bill Coles working as a volunteer for me in 2003. The comparisons are interesting and sometimes the small book gives more details than the main book.<br />
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-11435104890811990322019-12-09T12:16:00.000+00:002019-12-09T12:16:24.667+00:00Spode and Christmas 2019<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, '<i>Christmas Tree</i>' pattern S2134, crimson border c1941</td></tr>
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December is upon us and many will be thinking about Christmas.<br />
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Commercially this was a very important time for the Spode company as its most successful pattern in the 20th century was <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/12/spodes-christmas-tree-pattern.html" target="_blank">'<i>Christmas Tree</i>'</a>. In production, throughout the year, at the Spode factory in Stoke in England, this seasonal pattern was exported to the North American market in vast quantities.<br />
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Here's a fun fact: '<i>in the last quarter of 1999 Spode's Christmas Tree was recorded as the largest selling casual dinnerware pattern in the USA</i>.'<br />
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So important was '<i>Christmas Tree</i>' pattern for the success of the company, that I have given Christmas its own dedicated page on this blog. So, click <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/christmas-tree-pattern.html" target="_blank">Christmas and Spode</a> for links to lots more about Christmas and Spode in general; a little bit of Christmas History; and more about the iconic Spode '<i>Christmas Tree</i>' pattern.<br />
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Click <a href="https://tldrify.com/wmx" target="_blank">here</a> to find who really introduced the festive Christmas tree in England... no it wasn't Prince Albert... and more <a href="https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/tag/regency-christmas-tree/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Here are a few Spode patterns made for the Christmas season, in no particular order, to get you into the Christmas mood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, pattern D2035 c1860</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, '<i>Christmas Tree</i>' pattern S3324, green border 1991</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamps, note Q datemark after pattern number</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstamps for pattern D5208</td></tr>
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I am grateful to Paul Hanson of Philadelphia who kindly shared images of his Christmas pieces with me.</div>
Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-35425442662827667552019-11-17T14:58:00.001+00:002020-10-20T12:19:39.277+01:00Spode Patterns in the Very Early 1800s Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought it was time to look at some more of the gorgeous designs from Spode in the early 1800s. Here is Part 3 on this theme; the previous posts in this series (see links at the end of this post) only got us as far as 1808 but it is worth lingering awhile as there is so much more to see.<br />
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Many, but not all of these patterns are recorded in the Spode pattern books which are in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive.</a> The items shown here are mostly on bone china, if not, then this is stated in the image caption. They are also mostly handpainted and gilded. Items shown in this post are luxurious and made for Spode's main customers at the time i.e. the well-to-do. Many of these old patterns influenced Spode design right up to the first few years of the 21st century.<br />
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Pattern 1242, from about 1809, is decorated in cobalt blue and gold - two of the most expensive materials used in the pottery industry. This is a coffee can, part of a large tea and coffee service. In the early 1800s tea and coffee was not usually served together so a service might include 6 teacups and 6 coffee cups or cans but only 6 saucers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>Arundel</i>' 1998</td></tr>
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In the 1930s the pattern was reintroduced under the name '<i>Arundel</i>' and produced in other colours, such as crimson, as well as cobalt. It was still in production in the 1950s. Later still in 1998 another version was introduced with the addition of floral centres and cartouches, again named '<i>Arundel</i>', but now decorated by lithograph. It's perhaps worth a reminder here that over 70,000 patterns are recorded in the Spode archive spanning most of the company's life. Whilst pattern names were reused for different designs the pattern numbers are unique to one design.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacup & saucer, Bute shape, pattern 1372 c1810</td></tr>
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Pattern 1372 of about 1810 is shown here on a teacup and saucer - again once part of a larger service. It's really pretty and is handpainted with swags of roses and leaves, feathers and squiggles and finished with beautiful gilding.<br />
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Hundreds, probably thousands, of different shapes and items were produced by Spode. It is not just tea, dinner and dessert wares made at this period but also ornamental wares such as vases in many different shapes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pair of '<i>Beaded Vase Shape Jars</i>', pattern 1626 c1811</td></tr>
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Pattern 1626, from about 1811, was on a shape called a '<i>Beaded Vase Shape Jar</i>' - <a href="https://tldrify.com/wat" target="_blank">jar</a> is an old word for vase. This shape was made in 4 different sizes. Ornamental bead patterns, here around the foot and the rim, could be added by using a <a href="https://tldrify.com/wcz" target="_blank">roulette</a>. The decoration is handpainted and gilded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pattern 1626 glimpse of black panels</td></tr>
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The floral group on the front panel of the vase was slightly different on every vase in a set or <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/vase-madness-the-craze-for-garnitures" target="_blank">garniture</a>. As far as the design goes notice that white space is used to great effect in an otherwise flamboyant and complicated design. You can see a glimpse of the floral panels which feature either side of the main panel and they are on a black background providing a striking contrast.</div>
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At this period Spode was king in the production of <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china.</a> No other manufacturer could complete with the quality of Spode's very white and beautiful new ceramic <a href="https://tldrify.com/wav" target="_blank">body</a>. Spode's designs used the white of the pottery body as much as the rich colours and precious metals.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert plate, earthenware, pattern 1678 c1812 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration 4 <a href="https://tldrify.com/w9s" target="_blank">Curtis Botanical Magazine 1787</a></td></tr>
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Patterns were produced on earthenware too and often these were transfer printed in outline and then hand coloured. An example of this is a dessert plate in pattern 1678 of about 1812. In this pattern it is printed in black and hand coloured in green. All the botanical centres were taken from <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7351#page/12/mode/1up" target="_blank">Curtis's Botanical Magazines</a> of the late 1700s. There is a set of the magazines in the Spode archive from which I did my research for the modern version of the <a href="https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/publications-and-reports/publications/curtis-botanical-magazine" target="_blank">same magazine in 2002.</a> My article was called '<i><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8748.00349" target="_blank">Flora Ceramica</a></i>'. Life is much easier now as the old magazines are online from the rather brilliant <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)</a>.<br />
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In a <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/spode-desserts-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank">dessert service</a> in a pattern such as this each piece would be decorated with a different botanical subject and large pieces 2 or more. The plate in pattern 1678 here features '<i>Cyclamen coum or Round-Leav'd Cyclamen</i>' which is from Curtis's illustration No. 4 of 1787.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pierced basket stand, pattern 1706 c1812</td></tr>
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Pattern 1706 is sometimes referred to as 'C<i>hantilly Sprigs</i>' and is one of many Spode designs influenced by <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/spode-and-french-porcelain.html" target="_blank">French porcelain</a> manufacturers. It is handpainted and <a href="https://tldrify.com/wb3" target="_blank">hand pierced.</a> Although recorded in the pattern books as pattern 1706 of about 1812 it is a design thought to have also been used by Spode earlier than this at the end of the 1790s.<br />
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There are many different basket designs. I've included another, this time both basket and stand, so you can see what it would look like. This one is earthenware and in a transfer printed pattern called '<i>Lattice Scroll</i>' from c1810. They were part of dessert services and used to hold fruit or sweetmeats. The piercing is all hand done in the clay stage.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basket and stand in '<i>Lattice Scroll</i>' c1810</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacup & saucer, Bute shape, pattern 1823 c1813</td></tr>
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There was something to suit all tastes and fashion in the Spode pattern books at this period. Whilst some would choose French designs, others pretty roses, botanical or ornithological subjects, in contrast the Imari style remained popular and was in and out of fashion throughout the whole of the 19th century.</div>
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Pattern 1823 of about 1813 is a typical example. Others can be found on this blog. Use the following links or search on Imari for more. <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/spodes-pattern-967-and-1645.html" target="_blank">Spode's pattern 967... and 1645</a>; <a href="https://tldrify.com/wb4" target="_blank">Spode and a Hot Water Plate</a>; <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/golf.html" target="_blank">Golf and Spode</a>.<br />
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Shapes with 'embossed' (moulded) borders became popular at around this period and included designs called <i>Wicker Embossed</i>,<i> Dolphin Embossed</i>,<i> Swag Embossed</i>,<i> Dresden Embossed</i>,<i> Spear Leaf Embossed</i>,<i> Butterfly Embossed</i>,<i> French Embossed, Wreath Embossed </i>and, the most popular,<i> <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/spode-and-little-dish.html" target="_blank">Flower Embossed</a>.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert plate, '<i>Dolphin Embossed</i>' shape pattern 1875 c1813</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>'Bow Handled basket</i>',<i> </i>pattern 1924 c1813</td></tr>
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Pattern 1875 is on <i>Dolphin Embossed</i> with entwined dolphins as the main feature of the border. <a href="https://tldrify.com/wcu" target="_blank">The embossment was created in the moulds</a> from which pieces were made. The pattern features white lilies of different types - waterlily, Madonna lily and lily of the valley. The handpainted white flowers on the white bone china are quite striking. The same variety of lilies are used in pattern 1924 introduced in the same year which was a pattern for teawares on <i>Swag Embossed</i> shape but was also used to decorate the basket for flowers shown here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covered Chocolate Cup & Stand, '<i>Swag Embossed</i>' shape, pattern 1914 c1813</td></tr>
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Chocolate as a drink was something for the wealthy only in the early 1800s. A luxury. Nothing like the sweetened milky chocolate with weird ingredients so popular in the 21st century but made with <a href="https://tldrify.com/wcv" target="_blank">chocolate and water as discussed in the lovely 'All Things Georgian' blog.</a> I still make hot chocolate, based on the Georgian method, with a good organic, pure, unsweetened additive-free cocoa powder, making a paste with cold water and then very, very gently trickling hot water into it. No sugar and no milk but disappointingly in a mug not this pretty chocolate cup cover and stand...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sugar Box, New Oval shape, pattern 1930 c1813</td></tr>
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To finish this further glimpse into wares for the well-to-do in the early 1800s I chose this sugar box. It is on one of my favourite early shape designs from Spode called New Oval shape. More of the same shape with a different pattern can be seen by clicking <a href="https://tldrify.com/wcw" target="_blank">here></a>.<br />
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The sugar box, once part of a tea service is in pattern 1930 of about 1813. This is a pattern described by researchers as 'missing' which means there is no paper record in the Spode archive showing what it was like.<br />
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You cannot deny the sheer elegance of its shape with the sweeping lines of its lid and handles. And just look at the pattern. An all-over gilded design with accents of red and striking yellow bands. Sumptuous!<br />
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So I am still only up to 1813 but this magnificent sugar box in pattern 1930 is a stylish place to end... and this series may have to run and run.<br />
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<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/spode-patterns-in-very-early-1800s.html" target="_blank">Spode Patterns in the Very Early 1800s Part 1</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/04/spode-patterns-in-very-early-1800s-part.html" target="_blank">Spode Patterns in the Very Early 1800s Part 2</a></div>
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-61865565919564544972019-10-23T15:26:00.000+01:002019-10-23T15:56:55.574+01:00Spode and a Hot Water Plate<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot water plate, earthenware, Lucano pattern c1819-1833</td></tr>
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This is a hot water plate. It is transfer printed in '<i>Lucano </i>'pattern which was first recorded in about 1819. Its Spode <a href="https://tldrify.com/vx2" target="_blank">backstamps</a> are of a style used until 1833 so this piece dates between c1819 and 1833.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode backstamps and detail of the hot water spout</td></tr>
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The backstamps are from left to right: impressed Spode company mark incorporating workman's mark 2 i.e. identifying the man who made the dish from the clay stage; blue printed Spode company mark; and blue printed cypher identifying the printing team.</div>
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A hot water plate was used to keep food warm. A cover - glass, metal or ceramic - could be used to help keep the heat in. These types of hot water plates were, at this period, for well-to-do families for use either in the nursery or for invalids, in the days before hospitals, when the wealthy were nursed at home. The grand but draughty houses with kitchens some distance away from the living rooms created a demand for all sorts of warming devices, from this type of plate, to spoon and ladle warmers and whole cupboards designed as plate warmers.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of opening for the hot water & tiny hole where the shell 'lid' was secured</td></tr>
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To use the hot water plate, heated water was poured into the base of the plate through the opening by the handle on the left. The opening was then covered with a little 'lid' which is missing. This is not surprising as the 'lid' was a tiny ceramic shell to match the fixed one on the right hand side handle. The 'lid' shell was wired to the main pot through the tiny hole you may have spotted by the hot water opening. I wonder where all those tiny shell lids are now...? Later versions had corks stoppers or metal screw-in stoppers. It is perhaps worth remembering that water had to be fetched from wells or springs to the houses and heated without the aid of electricity or gas at this period.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of fixed shell on closed handle</td></tr>
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'<i>Lucano</i>' pattern was introduced when there was an interest in pictures of places visited by those on the Grand Tour. It depicts '<i>The Bridge of Lucano near Rome</i>' possibly taken from '<i>Merigot's Views of Rome and its Vicinity</i>' published in 1796 -1798. Other pottery manufacturers also produced Lucano.<br />
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Here is a hot water plate of a later Imari design made in the<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank"> Copeland & Garrett </a>period (1833-1847) which has a cork stopper. The pattern is printed, handpainted and gilded and this is probably bone china.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ceramic topped cork stopper closed (detail)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copeland & Garrett hot water plate - stopper on the right - 1833-1847</td></tr>
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-74430303236476823212019-09-13T11:37:00.000+01:002019-09-13T11:39:14.140+01:00Spode and a Little Dish<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert/fruit dish, bone china, '<i>Flower Embossed</i>' shape, pattern 3127 c1821</td></tr>
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This little dish, 7" diameter, is a dessert/fruit dish and features in several places on this blog for different reasons... not least as it is one of my favourites. There is something about its shape and size which is perfectly proportioned. Beautifully painted and gilded it is also finely potted with a lightness as well as a silky smoothness to it - a reminder how nice it is to handle pots 'in the flesh'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail showing 2 of the moulded floral sprays which give the shape its name</td></tr>
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Pattern 3127 is on a shape called '<i>Flower Embossed</i>' which was first introduced in about 1813. The shape design has different moulded flower sprays - usually 3 but less on smaller pieces and more on larger pieces. The 'embossed' flowers are part of the moulds i.e. not added afterwards as in <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/sprigged-stoneware.html" target="_blank">sprigged ware.</a> You can see this detail in the image of a mould for a hexagonal 'envelope' dessert serving dish in the shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/vdn" target="_blank">Press mould</a> (detail) for a '<i>Flower Embossed</i>' dessert dish</td></tr>
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The groups of flowers were part of the original <a href="https://tldrify.com/vdo" target="_blank">modelling</a> followed by <a href="https://tldrify.com/vdp" target="_blank">mouldmaking</a> for this shape. Modelling and mouldmaking are highly skilled jobs on a pottery factory, often underestimated or not even thought about.<br />
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Two dishes which match this mould can be seen in the image of the shape decorated with a different design, pattern number 2004, of c1814<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">* Pattern 2004 c1814 with 'envelope' dishes top left and right</td></tr>
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So... back to my little dish in pattern 3127. It would once have been part of a <a href="http://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/spode-desserts-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank">dessert service</a> with many, many other pieces - perhaps dozens and dozens of items (see image of pattern 2004 at the end of this blogpost).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/vdr" target="_blank">Backstamp</a>, handpainted in red</td></tr>
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<a href="http://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/07/composition-of-services-or-whats-in-my.html" target="_blank">The composition of a dessert service</a> depended on how many people a service was ordered for and there could be hundreds of pieces. These would include dishes, plates, cream tureens, sugar tureens, low comports, tall comports, baskets, other serving dishes such as <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/10/spode-and-pineapples.html" target="_blank">pineapple stands</a>, and sometimes spectacular centrepieces. In the early 1800s the dessert course was quite formal and a showpiece for the well-to-do.<br />
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Every piece of a service in pattern 3127 would have been handpainted in the same layout of the groups and sprays of flowers but using different combinations of colours and varieties of flowers. Other designs in this ilk would feature <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2016/11/spode-and-audubon-birds.html" target="_blank">birds, birds in landscapes,</a> <a href="https://tldrify.com/vdq" target="_blank">single botanical subjects</a>, landscapes, etc.<br />
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All the pieces were gilded with a 'dontil' edge with extra gilding on the bigger serving pieces particularly those, like the tureens which had lids and handles, where the gilder could add a lot more detail.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-07-27T09:54:00%2B01:00&max-results=2" target="_blank">Example of flamboyant handle gilding, pattern 4033 c1825</a></td></tr>
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In designs on '<i>Flower Embossed</i>'<i> </i>shape the moulded flowers could be left undecorated, as in my dish in pattern 3127, in relief in a border as in pattern 2004 also shown here, painted in colours or gilded. Large numbers of different patterns were produced on<i> </i>this shape. Of all the embossed shapes introduced in the early 1800s it remained the most popular staying in production until around the late 1960s. In the 20th century the shape was particularly popular with the North American market.<br />
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*More of pattern 2004 c1814 where a range of '<i>Flower Embossed</i>' dessert pieces can be seen and also some coffee cups & saucers in pattern number 1978 c1814.<br />
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It is from the Peggy and David Rockefeller collection sold by Christie's 2018.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-spode-porcelain-powder-blue-ground-part-dessert-6134707-details.aspx" target="_blank">Part dessert service, '<i>Flower Embossed</i>' shape, pattern 2004 c1814</a></td></tr>
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Use this link <a href="https://www.christies.com/features/Rockefeller-sales-final-report-9206-3.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features1" target="_blank">here></a> to browse this remarkable collection which was sold to benefit the Rockefeller charities and foundations.<br />
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-1867903428071892942019-08-14T15:28:00.000+01:002019-08-14T15:28:00.730+01:00Josiah Spode II, 'The Gentleman's Magazine', pots, a house and an obituary <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gentleman's Magazine, cover, November 1827</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/josiah-spode-ii-17551827-in-hunting-costume-20256/view_as/grid/search/works:josiah-spode-ii-17551827-in-hunting-costume/page/1" target="_blank">Josiah Spode II (1755-1827)</a></td></tr>
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In the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a>, amongst the many pattern books, shape books, print record books, catalogues and other business documents is a copy of <i>The Gentleman's Magazine</i> of 1827. A note on the modern paper cover and a reference in the index point to page 93 for the announcement of the death of Josiah Spode II.<br />
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"<i>STAFFORDSHIRE. - July 16: At the Mount, Newcastle...</i><i> Josiah Spode Esq</i>"<br />
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Josiah Spode II (1755-1827) was the eldest of 8 children born to Josiah Spode I (1733-1797) founder of the Spode company.</div>
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'<i>The Mount</i>', mentioned in the death notice above was the home Spode II built for himself on his return to Stoke, after his time spent setting up and running the Spode <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/spode-and-london.html" target="_blank">business in London</a>. Not far from the factory, but far enough to be in lovely grounds, it has been described as '<i>the biggest mansion ever built in Stoke</i>'.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Spode vase, bone china, featuring '<i>The Mount</i>', possibly 1820s </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of '<i>The Mount</i>' vase</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back of '<i>The Mount</i>' vase with handpainted & encrusted flowers</td></tr>
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I was intrigued to find out more about the style and contents of this magazine published in 1827. The Spode company was then, arguably, at the height of its success under Spode II, producing beautiful wares of superb quality - dinner, tea, dessert, ornamental and useful - exported all over the world. I have included some images of Spode pieces from around this period.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/sprigged-stoneware.html" target="_blank">'Crocodial' teapot, sprigged stoneware, c1815</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coffee cup & saucer, Pembroke shape pattern 4408 c1827</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/v5e" target="_blank">Backstamp</a> to pattern 4408</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/v5g" target="_blank">Superb bone china c1823</a></td></tr>
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So, what were gentlemen reading about in their magazine of 1827? What sort of world was it at a particularly successful time for the Spode company? On an initial look through I found the list of Obituaries but sadly nothing for Josiah seemed to be there... but read on.<br />
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Sections included discussions about Coinage, Defence of English Universities, New Churches, and other religious subjects including the Cremation of 'Hindoo Widows' and 'Druidical Superstition' and letters to the editor. Money, education, religion and opinions - nothing much different from the media today.<br />
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After the Obituaries were some statistics: a Bill of Mortality for one month June to July recording 2,428 christenings but 1,806 burials with 542 babies dying under the age of two. Below this were prices of hay and straw, prices of beef, mutton, veal, pork and lamb at Smithfield; then coal, tallow and candle prices. These were followed by share prices. The canals, vital to the pottery industry in Stoke, seemed particularly lucrative at this time especially Loughborough which was the highest priced share on the page. The meteorological diary seemed to give the impression of a typical English summer - fair with rain and showers.<br />
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But my closer, and rather slow look through the whole book, many years prior to it being available online, revealed it contained not just the July issue but other issues up to December 1827. So, following a sudden inclination to read through all the obituaries in the later editions 'just in case' and hoping for more than the one line announcement , I was rewarded by finding the full entry for Josiah Spode II in the November 1827 issue (not entered in the index).<br />
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It is beautifully written and worth repeating in full here with original spelling and punctuation. It seems mostly factual but, just as in the media today, contains some basic errors. I have added corrections and a few comments in square brackets.<br />
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<i>July…. At the Mount, Staffordshire, aged 73 </i>[actually 72],<i> Josiah Spode, Esq. Potter to the King.</i></div>
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<i>He was born at Stoke-upon-Trent, where his father, in the early part of whose time the manufacturers of earthenware were few and small, had established a flourishing trade. He produced in perfection, and with great success, the blue printed services, then recently introduced; and the vitrified basaltes </i>[sic] <i>or black Egyptian ware were much improved by his efforts.</i><br />
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<i>The son, now deceased, was from his earliest years remarked for intelligence and attention. When taken from school, his father </i>[Spode I] <i>employed him occasionally to superintend every branch of the manufacture in which his services could be available. At the early age of nineteen </i>[actually 20]<i>, he married Miss Barker </i>['17 years and upwards']<i>, daughter of a brother manufacturer. This union, in which neither interest nor ambition had part, constituted the mutual happiness of the parties, until the year 1797 </i>[actually 1782]<i>, when the lady died in childbirth </i>[actually from fever, leaving 5 children under the age of 7].<br />
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<i>After his marriage, Mr. Spode's father and father-in-law, considered it desirable that he should settle in the metrolis </i>[sic] [i.e. <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/spode-and-london.html" target="_blank">London in 1778</a>]<i>. In this he so abundantly succeeded, that in the year previously to the death of his father, which occurred suddenly in 1797, his net profits exceeded the sum of £30,000 </i>[around £1.25 million 2019]<i>. His liberality kept pace with his success; upon one occasion, he presented a diligent and confidential servant with a gift of £1,000 </i>[<a href="https://tldrify.com/v6z" target="_blank">William Copeland</a>].<br />
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<i>On his father's death, he committed the management of the London warehouse to his eldest son </i>[<a href="https://tldrify.com/v71" target="_blank">William Spode</a>]<i> and the confidential servant alluded to </i>[William Copeland]<i>, and settled his family at <a href="https://tldrify.com/v73" target="_blank">Fenton Hall</a> </i>[rented prior to building of '<i>The Mount</i>']<i>, in the neighbourhood of his manufactory at Stoke </i>[about 30 minutes' walk away]<i>.</i><br />
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<i>The establishment </i>[i.e. the Stoke factory] <i>was greatly extended </i>[and modernised]<i>; and, to the manufacture of earthenware, that of porcelain </i><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">[now known as bone china]</a><i>, before established only at Derby, Coalfort </i>[sic]<i> and Worcester, was added. Mr. Spode's celebrity in this branch of his manufacture may be inferred from the circumstance that in 1806, the Prince of Wales, attended by the Duke of Clarence, the Marquis of Stafford, and several other noblemen, visited the potteries </i><a href="https://tldrify.com/v74" target="_blank">[and the Spode factory]</a><i>, and have appointed him potter to his Royal Highness.</i><br />
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<i>In 1803 Mr. Spode erected a splendid mansion at the Mount, whither his family removed in 1804. There, at the Jubilee in 1809, he gave a splendid fete to all the gentry of the district, and as handsomely regaled the persons in his employment. In 1812 he erected a very large steam-engine on his premises, and made many important improvements. In 1823, having greatly enhanced the value as well as the beauty of his porcelain, he produced as a specimen, a large and superbly ornamented jar </i>[another name for vase]<i>, of such elegance in form and embellishment, as to entitle it to the praise of a chef d'oeuvre.</i><br />
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<i>Mr. Spode's liberality to his servants was proverbial; and, at his death, those who were in the more confidential offices, were distinguished by substantial proofs of the estimation in which they had been held.</i>"<br />
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This is a lovely contemporary précis of Josiah Spode II's life touching on both personal and business commitments and showing the high esteem in which he was held, as well as being able to give a good party!<br />
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'<i>The Mount</i>', a short distance from the Spode factory, went out of the Spode family some years later and here are details of its sale in 1875.<br />
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I am grateful to the following:<br />
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<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054261409&view=1up&seq=499" target="_blank">Hathi Trust</a> where I found the book online<br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/recommended-reading-4-copyhold-potworks.html" target="_blank">Peter Roden</a> to whom I am always deeply indebted for sharing his meticulous research into the Spode family history with me.<br />
<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">V&A Online collections</a> and staff/former staff Terry Bloxham and Rebecca Wallis<br />
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More about Spode II on my blogs:<br />
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<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/spode-and-london.html" target="_blank">Spode and London</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">Bone China</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2016/08/spode-and-showing-off.html" target="_blank">Spode and Showing Off</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-confusion-of-spodes.html" target="_blank">A Confusion of Spodes</a><br />
<a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">Who Owned Spode?</a><br />
and under S on my <a href="https://spodeabc.blogspot.com/p/s.html" target="_blank">Spode ABC</a><br />
<br />Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-49199975616484323262019-07-27T09:54:00.001+01:002019-07-27T10:05:25.093+01:00Spode, Sèvres and the mystery of the 'tulip custard cup & stand'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spode 'tulip custard cup & stand', pattern 2395 c1816</td></tr>
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Here is one of my less successful photos of a Spode pot. But you can just see that it shows an unusual shaped bone china Spode 'custard cup & stand' - one of a pair in the Spode museum collection. I took this photo in about 2005 when I was curator and they were displayed in the main gallery of the museum.<br />
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In the museum documentation they were described as 'tulip custard cups & stands' but to me the design never felt like a tulip. I am not entirely convinced of the custard cup description either but will stick with it...<br />
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The surface pattern and the shape are entered in the Spode pattern books as number 2395. This was first recorded in about 1816.<br />
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Hard to tell from my snaps but the 'tulip custard cups & stands' are really beautiful items with moulded decoration which is handpainted. They are richly gilded in a very elegant way. Not just the detail on the painted foliage but also gilded inside the lip of the cup, under the rim of the saucer and around the foot rim, which would hardly have been seen. Truly the mark of something for the extremely well-to-do.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A shelf of richly decorated wares including the pair of 'tulips'</td></tr>
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I will now treat you to another poor photo of mine of a shelf of pots in the old museum display so that you can see the pair (just), as well as getting a feel of the size. The 'shoes' are <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2019/02/spode-slipper-tumbledown-dick.html" target="_blank">slipper inkwells</a> and together with the oblong tray for pens and the tiny candlestick, perhaps for melting sealing wax, are all from desk sets. The bottles with stoppers are for perfume.<br />
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But persevere and stay with me for better photos.<br />
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I did find another Spode piece which is surely more correctly described as a tulip design. It is in the V&A collections and is also catalogued as a custard cup. Again it is bone china and richly decorated, but this time in stunning tulip colours, with superb gilding. The clever design of the gilding inside the cup is similar to that on pattern 2395 which, of course, you can't see clearly from my image... oh dear.<br />
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After researching this design I finally solved the mystery behind the Spode non-tulip 'tulip custard cup and stand'. There is a very strong French connection.</div>
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To put Spode's wares into context, the production and success of <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">a beautiful new English porcelain from Spode,</a> i.e. what we now call bone china, led to this description from Antoinette Fay-Hallé, Curator of the Sèvres factory, France:</div>
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Spode's bone china was translucent, very white and resonant. Of superb quality it was intended to compete with and be on a par with the Sèvres porcelain much loved by the well-to-do of the period throughout the world.</div>
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French shapes and French words can be found throughout the business, design and production records now in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a>. for more on the French connection see my blogpost <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/spode-and-french-porcelain.html" target="_blank">Spode and French Porcelain</a>.</div>
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Pieces made by Spode sometimes followed the Sèvres production extremely closely. Some Spode shapes were described in the factory records as 'French' and blatantly as 'Sèvres'.</div>
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Now back to 'tulips' and here's a great photo, so obviously not by me, but from the <a href="https://www.sevresciteceramique.fr/" target="_blank">Sèvres Manufacture et Musée Nationaux.</a> I came across it when researching this subject. It was exciting to find an almost identical item to the Spode non-tulip 'tulip custard cup and stand' but manufactured by Sèvres.</div>
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It is described as a Tasse Cobéa. You can immediately see the similarity to the Spode pieces. In this instance Spode is closely following a Sèvres design of c1813, which dates from a few years before the Spode pattern of c1816.<br />
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Now time to play spot the difference. Basically the Sèvres version has more gilding - the inside is completely solidly gilded to stunning effect. And it would be French porcelain not bone china. I also think the Sèvres saucer is more flat.<br />
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So what is a Tasse Cobéa? Well even I know tasse is cup and then more research and I find a very beautiful flower called Cobea scandens with the absolutely perfect common name of 'Cup and Saucer Vine'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://digitalbotanicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/05/cobaea-scandens-cup-and-saucer-vine.html" target="_blank">'Cup and Saucer' vine</a> from A Digital Botanic Garden</td></tr>
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The best photo I could find is from the rather wonderful <a href="http://digitalbotanicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/05/cobaea-scandens-cup-and-saucer-vine.html" target="_blank">A Digital Botanic Garden</a>. The flower is simply fabulous. For the ceramic pieces it was obviously used as the inspiration for the shape however the colours are completely different.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14313#page/2/mode/1up" target="_blank">Cobea scandens Curtis Botanical Magazine Vol 22 plate 851 c1805</a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The botanical illustration of the Cobea is from Curtis's Botanical Magazine from about 1805. Click on the link which is in the caption above to take you to the digitised copy of Volume 22. Use the links there to the plates and text pages to find page 851 (NB the text page comes before the illustration page). You can then read all about the plant including '<i>Our drawing was taken in July 1784 at Mr Woodford's Vauxhall' </i>[London].</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am grateful to the following websites which helped me to solve this puzzle:</span><br />
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<a href="http://digitalbotanicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/05/cobaea-scandens-cup-and-saucer-vine.html" target="_blank">A Digital Botanic Garden</a> (Twitter Phil Gates @WeardaleDiary)<br />
<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14313#page/2/mode/1up" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a> (Twitter @BioDivLibrary)<br />
<a href="https://www.sevresciteceramique.fr/" target="_blank">Sèvres Manufacture et Musée Nationaux</a> (Twitter @sevresceramique)<br />
<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">V&A Online Collections</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Some of you will also know I dabble in a bit of gardening but no, I have yet to</span> grow this Cobea, and not convinced it will like my location with its short, wet growing season. You can find out more at <a href="https://wildenglishgarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">An English Garden</a> (with reasonably good photos... I have improved).</div>
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-82884984368594340062019-06-17T09:40:00.003+01:002022-04-09T12:31:02.021+01:00What did the Spodes use on their dining table?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soup tureen, cover & stand, pattern 4033, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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It is really lovely to find much of a large dinner service still together, rather than just the odd item or two long since split from the original order.<br />
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This Spode dinner service is in pattern 4033 which was first recorded in c1825. It is in the <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">collections of the V&A.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soup tureen cover, gilding detail</td></tr>
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It has to be one of the best designed and beautifully made dinner services to ever come out of the factory in Stoke in the early 1800s because the Spodes owned it and, of course, would want the best wares their company could produce. What a wonderful sight it would have been laid out for guests to marvel at as they ate their meal and the floral pattern was gradually revealed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Large serving dish (platter) Felspar Porcelain, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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In this service, on Gadroon shape, some pieces are bone china, others Felspar Porcelain. Some are marked Spode dating from c1825 to 1833; others Copeland & Garrett dating from 1833-1847.<br />
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The pattern is gorgeous with a gilded border accented in red. The centres of floral groups are handpainted. Every piece of this huge service has a different group of flowers painted in the centre but always following the same style of arrangement.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2013/12/spode-and-cheese-dishes.html" target="_blank">Cheese stand</a>, Copeland & Garrett 1833-1847</td></tr>
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I have never been able to find out exactly when it was ordered or exactly which member of the family ordered it during my research. Evidence points to it being a Josiah Spode. But which one?<br />
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Working backwards then, this service was part of several hundred Spode pieces presented to the V&A by Helen Gulson (c1835-1910) between about 1898 and 1902. It was partly gifted and partly sold. She was the niece of Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893) and went to live with him after the death of his wife Helen Heywood.<br />
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Helen Gulson inherited the items from Uncle Josiah Spode IV at his death. She had lived with him for many years at Hawkesyard Hall/Park (later Priory), Armitage, Staffordshire. Great grandson of Josiah Spode I (1733-1797), founder of the Spode pottery company, Josiah Spode IV was only 6 when his father Josiah Spode III died in 1829. Unlike Spodes I, II and III he was never involved with the Spode factory.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hawkesyard Hall/Park (later Priory). Also known as Armitage Park and Spode House</td></tr>
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Correspondence between Helen Gulson and the V&A describes the Spode pieces as being inherited by her from her Uncle Josiah [Spode IV] '<i>in whose possession they have always been, & in that of his father & mother</i>'. His mother was Mary Williamson*, married to his father, Spode III (1777-1829), in 1815. She died in 1860 with Spode IV as the only child who would have been her heir.<br />
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So it would seem this service was originally from Spode II or Spode III. According to Miss Gulson the service was '<i>frequently used</i>' and added to at later dates as needed from the Spode factory under <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">Copeland & Garrett</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Large serving dish (platter) Felspar Porcelain, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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Here are some more pieces from the service from the <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">V&A collections online</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover Dish, or Vegetable Dish, and Cover, Copeland & Garrett 1833-1847</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover Dish, or Vegetable Dish, and Cover, looking down.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, Copeland & Garrett 1833-1847</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sauce tureen, cover and stand, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soup Plate, Spode c1825-1833</td></tr>
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There is also another beautiful dinner service at the V&A, from the same source, in pattern 5061 first recorded in about 1832. This one features groups of fruits and flowers for its centres. Again fully handpainted with lots of gilding and a strong blue border. A few years ago it was displayed in the British Galleries at the V&A... and may still be so in 2019.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover Dish, or Vegetable Dish, Amherst shape, pattern 5061, Spode c1832-1833</td></tr>
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* <u>Mary Williamson</u> was sister to Hugh Henshall Williamson. He was close friend and confidante of the Spode family as well as solicitor, executor of wills and trustee of the Spode company at the death of Spode III in 1829 and more... Incidentally, Mary's mother, Anne, had a rather important first husband, James Brindley (1716-1772) the famous canal builder. Hugh Henshall Williamson was uncle to Spode IV.<br />
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<u>Researched by Pam Woolliscroft with acknowledgements and thanks to</u>: Peter Roden for his in-depth Spode family research and to The V&A Collections Online.Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-16516601701089069482019-04-23T13:05:00.000+01:002019-05-04T09:23:57.208+01:00Spode Patterns in the Very Early 1800s Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A while ago I blogged about <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/spode-patterns-in-very-early-1800s.html" target="_blank">Spode Patterns in the Very Early 1800s</a> and looked at some of the first 600 patterns recorded in the Spode Pattern Books which are now in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a>.<br />
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I thought it time to look at some more designs from the early 1800s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cress dish & stand, creamware, pattern 687 c1805</td></tr>
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Spode's pattern 687 was first recorded in about 1805. It is a simple but effective design. Here it is shown on a cress dish and stand. You can find all about this piece in another of my blogposts <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2017/12/spode-and-cress-dish.html" target="_blank">Spode and a Cress Dish.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>French Jar</i>' pattern 711 c1805<br />
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Pattern 711 is a sumptuous design with handpainted flower subjects on a gilded ground. It too was first recorded in about 1805. It is interesting to compare the two very different designs, 687 and 711, from the same period.<br />
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The name of the shape of this vase in pattern 711 is '<i>French Jar</i>' as recorded in Spode's 1820 Shape Book,<i> </i>the must-see document in the Spode archive giving the contemporary names for objects of the period, rather than modern, often 'made up' ones. It also helps researchers to identify lesser known objects which are now not so common.<br />
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Many Spode enthusiasts are more familiar with the '<i>New Shape French Jar</i>' recorded in the same volume. The one here with pattern 711 is the 'old' shape but when recorded the 'new' one was yet to be designed so it was simply recorded as '<i>French Jar</i>'. You can see a <i>New Shape French Jar </i>by clicking/tapping <a href="https://tldrify.com/scf" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matchpot, (front), pattern 711 c1805</td></tr>
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Also in pattern 711 is a '<i>Matchpot</i>' or '<i>Match Pot</i>'. Sometimes these tall, narrow matchpots are called spill vases but this is not a phrase found in the Spode records until much, much later in the 1800s and then rarely. Matchpots sat on mantelpieces holding 'matches' which were little pieces of wood, twists of paper, cord etc. which could be lit from the fire and then used to light tapers, candles, lamps etc. This predated tipped, striking matches with which we are more familiar. These types of wares with this expensive decoration were for the well-to-do customer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matchpot, (rear), pattern 711 c1805</td></tr>
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Just like the '<i>French Jar</i>' above, the matchpot is exuberant, rich yet not gaudy, with fresh-looking flowers flowing all around the shape on a gilded background. Gorgeous!<br />
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In Spode of this period there is often no Spode backstamp, just a pattern number in this case 711. Research in the Spode papers, and experience, means it can be identified as Spode.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tldrify.com/tkc" target="_blank">Backstamp</a> on the matchpot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>Lizard Bottle & Stopper</i>', bone china, pattern 711 c1805</td></tr>
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Another item in pattern 711 is on a shape recorded as '<i>Lizard Bottle & Stopper</i>'. Amongst the flowers in the pattern you can see a moulded or embossed hieroglyph which led to this name but I am not certain of the reasoning behind it - it could be a factory name or it could have some meaning associated with the Egyptian alphabet. There was an <a href="https://tldrify.com/tpj" target="_blank">Egyptian influence</a> on design in the early 1800s at Spode.<br />
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Confusingly even without the 'lizard' moulding the bottle sometimes retained this shape name! A very similar shape without the lizard but with raised moulded hoops around the body of the bottle is recorded as '<i>Dutch covered bottle</i>'. Both were for perfume and available in a range of small sizes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacup & saucer, bone china, <i>Bute </i>shape, platinum lustre & gold, pattern 822 c1806 </td></tr>
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Pattern 822 first recorded in about 1806 is one of a range of amazing designs using <a href="https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/22/4/138-148/" target="_blank">platinum</a> lustre which was possibly/probably invented at the Spode factory during the period <a href="https://tldrify.com/tkd" target="_blank">Henry Daniel</a> worked with Spode II. Ceramic decoration we take for granted - ceramic colours, metals, techniques, lustres - was being developed by various manufacturers and specialists battling with the technical difficulties in a new industry in the late 1700s/early 1800s. Spode was at the forefront of this.<br />
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Platinum lustre gave a mirror-like effect. Unlike silver lustre, platinum did not tarnish and was a little more hard wearing. Combined with gold and Spode's very white, translucent <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/bone-china.html" target="_blank">bone china</a> the designs are very elegant, not at all gaudy, but with a feeling of extravagance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail inside cup and solid gilding to handle, pattern 822 c1806 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacup, bone china, Bute shape, pattern 831 c1806</td></tr>
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Pattern 831 also of about 1806 seen here on a teacup, has bands of platinum lustre and gold combined with a beautiful oriental design in red and gold - some will be familiar with the design as it is the same as the border to a famous Spode blue printed design called <i><a href="https://tldrify.com/scg" target="_blank">Geranium</a>.</i> In pattern 831 the combination of the platinum, gold and red is stunning. (Poor photo - sorry).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>Lizard Bottle & Stopper</i>', bone china, pattern 868 c1806</td></tr>
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Pattern 868 is a design strongly influenced by Chinese porcelain patterns. Here it is shown on a '<i>Lizard Bottle & Stopper</i>'. The pattern was first recorded in about 1806. Compare the effect of a different design from the same shape in pattern 711 above.<br />
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Also in Oriental style is pattern 941 first recorded a year later in about 1807.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plate, earthenware, pattern 941 c1807</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacup, bone china, Bute shape, pattern 1053 c1808</td></tr>
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A very pretty design has pattern number 1053 first recorded in about 1808 in complete contrast to the Chinese porcelain inspired patterns produced at the same time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A range of wares, bone china, pattern 1166 c1808</td></tr>
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To finish this post I thought it would be nice to look at one of Spode's most famous patterns of the early 1800s. It has a memorable number - 1166. It is so beautiful I gave it its own blogpost which you can find by clicking/tapping <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/11/pattern-number-1166.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of pattern 1166</td></tr>
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So this post still only covers some of Spode's patterns up to 1808. There are thousands more patterns to go... and I hope to add more in the future<br />
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Meanwhile you can find mention of other early 19th century Spode pattern numbers dotted about this blog - use c18** in the search box.<br />
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Remember there are also the transfer printed patterns produced in the early 1800s too which were not recorded in the pattern books. See <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2010/12/italian-pattern.html" target="_blank">Italian</a>, <a href="https://tldrify.com/tpk" target="_blank">Geranium </a>and <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2011/02/tower-pattern.html" target="_blank">Tower</a>.Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-73673363077785709452019-03-10T15:32:00.000+00:002019-03-11T12:07:30.570+00:00Spode, Parian, Sir Walter Scott and a Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Visiting Edinburgh recently, I found it was absolutely impossible to miss the <a href="https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/scott-monument" target="_blank">The Scott Monument</a> in Princes Street.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scott Monument, Princes St., Edinburgh in 2019</td></tr>
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This enormous, elaborate Gothic building, designed by architect <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2919/george-meikle-kemp-1795-1844-architect-and-designer-scott-monument" target="_blank">George Meikle Kemp</a>, is perhaps not to everybody's taste, but it is a magnificent memorial to one of Scotland's most revered figures. Its construction began in 1840 and it is described by <a href="https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/scott-monument" target="_blank">Edinburgh Museums</a> as '<i>the largest monument to a writer anywhere in the world</i>'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plaque on the Scott Monument </td></tr>
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On approaching the monument I soon saw the beautiful and very large marble statue in its centre and immediately recognised it as the same as a <a href="https://tldrify.com/tas" target="_blank">Copeland parian</a> group with which I was familiar - hence this blogpost!<br />
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The parian group of poet and novelist <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24928" target="_blank">Sir Walter Scott</a> and his dog belonged to my Spode mentor and colleague Robert Copeland (1925-2010). I seem to remember it was his favourite parian piece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copeland parian group, Sir Walter Scott with Dog 1850</td></tr>
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The statue in the Scott Monument was sculpted by Sir John Steell from a single piece of Carrara marble weighing 30 tons. It took Steell 6 years to complete. An impressively large work it is almost dwarfed by the Gothic monument around it.<br />
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The Sir Walter Scott with Dog parian group was first made by the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-owners.html" target="_blank">Spode company</a> in 1850 under the ownership of W. T. Copeland.<br />
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Parian (originally called <a href="https://spodeabc.blogspot.com/2017/05/statuary-porcelain-and-london.html" target="_blank">Statuary Porcelain</a>) is believed to have been developed and introduced by the Copeland pottery manufacturer. This beautiful new <a href="https://tldrify.com/tav" target="_blank">body</a> was described, in about 1845, by sculptor John Gibson RA (1790-1866) as '<i>Decidedly the best material next to Marble</i>'.<br />
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The quality of Copeland's parian is always outstanding, in the body itself, its design and in an often direct association with the original sculptor. This is the case with Sir Walter Scott with Dog where Steell was responsible for the model of the 'reduced' parian version. Pieces are usually impressed 'J. Steell Sculp Edin 1850' along with a Copeland <a href="https://tldrify.com/tbb" target="_blank">backstamp</a> and sometimes a date code.<br />
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Sometimes sculptors approached Copeland's, other times Copeland's approached the sculptor either directly, or a third party, such as the Art Associations, would be the contact.<br />
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Today we would probably refer to this as a parian figure but in papers in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a> statuary porcelain 'figures' are divided into statuettes, groups and busts. So this is a group as there is more than one figure in the composition - it includes Scott's favourite dog, Maida, lying at his side.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front cover, Statuary Porcelain Catalogue 1851</td></tr>
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Incidentally it seems that Copeland also produced busts of Sir Walter Scott - possibly 5 different versions! Some may also have been in association with Steell.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copeland parian bust, Sir Walter Scott</td></tr>
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On March 13th 1850 <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/heritage" target="_blank">'<i>The Scotsman</i>'</a> newspaper contained an announcement that the Edinburgh Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts intended to commission 100 'statuary porcelain' copies of John Steell's statue in Scott's Monument. The copies were to be distributed among their members in the following July. The group was also to be reissued at a later date. So this was originally a private commission from the Association rather than an item originated by Copeland's for general release.<br />
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The group was exhibited at the <a href="https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/the-great-exhibition" target="_blank">Great Exhibition of 1851</a> described as follows:<br />
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'<i>Sir Walter Scott, reduced copy by John Steel</i><i> </i>[sic] <i>R.S.A</i><i> from the original colossal statue on Calton Hill, executed for the Edinburgh Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts</i>'</div>
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In the Spode archive the earliest recorded price for the piece is 57 shillings. Further records show it was still being offered in 1928 where it is referred to in the 'Making Books' priced at 8 shillings. By this time its copyright with the Edinburgh Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts would have lapsed and it could be sold more widely.<br />
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All about Copeland statuary porcelain (parian) here:</div>
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In '<i>Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain</i>' by Robert Copeland, the parian group Sir Walter Scott with Dog has ref no. GP61 and the bust of Sir Walter Scott had ref no. B70. This book includes much of the company's production of parian, Robert Copeland's detailed and painstaking research into the origin of the subjects, ceramic recipes for parian, and discussion of which manufacturer made it first!<br />
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Pubd: Antique Collectors' Club, 2007 ISBN 10: 1 85149 499 5 and ISBN 13: 1 85149 499 6<br />
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Click/tap <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/booklist-for-spode-enthusiasts.html" target="_blank">booklist</a> for more books.<br />
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As well as mentions above there are also papers in the <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-archive.html" target="_blank">Spode archive</a> which include recipes, images, catalogues, correspondence and agreements between Copeland's and the sculptors in relation to parian.</div>
Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-10774180408289594022019-02-01T10:46:00.000+00:002019-02-01T13:08:01.919+00:00Spode, a Slipper & Tumbledown Dick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Occasionally I like to concentrate on one gorgeous Spode pot for this blog - something that I think is beautiful and worthy of an in-depth look.<br />
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This delightful little pot fits the bill. It is a slipper inkwell. It is just a few inches long.<br />
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I have written about them and other ceramic shoes previously on this blog here: <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/spode-shoes-and-slippers.html" target="_blank">Spode, Shoes and Slippers</a>.<br />
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This slipper inkwell (from a private collection) would have been part of a desk set. Only the wealthy, who were also educated, could afford and had need of these items which meant they were of the highest quality in ceramic <a href="https://tldrify.com/sy8" target="_blank">body</a>, surface decoration and shape design.<br />
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This one is made from bone china and is decorated in a pattern with a lovely name - <a href="https://tldrify.com/sy5" target="_blank">Tumbledown Dick</a>. Select the pattern name to take you to my Spode ABC for more.<br />
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Several versions of Tumbledown Dick were made in different colourways. This is in cobalt blue and gold - one of the most expensive combinations of decorating materials at this time. Like most of the pots in this sort of style at this period this would have been fired at least 5 times in <a href="https://bottleoven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">bottle ovens</a> during its different stages of manufacture.<br />
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It has pattern number 3967 which was first recorded in about 1824. Together with the Spode mark in this style this gives a date range of c1824 to 1833.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handpainted <a href="https://tldrify.com/sy6" target="_blank">backstamp </a>on the 'sole' of the shoe</td></tr>
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The 'sole' of this slipper inkwell is painted to resemble leather. I love it!</div>
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The large hole at the front was used to fill the inkwell with ink and would have had a matching, gilded bone china stopper, now missing. Unfortunately these tiny stoppers for inkwells, perfume bottles, hot water plates etc often get lost.<br />
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Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342442978424220628.post-27911558893912615592019-01-01T11:48:00.001+00:002019-01-01T11:48:04.674+00:00Spode, January and Winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This beautiful printed tile, dating from the late 1800s, depicts January from a set of twelve designs representing the months of the year.<br />
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I have blogged about it before and you can find details here: <a href="https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/2016/01/spode-in-january.html" target="_blank">Spode in January</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'<i>Seasons</i>' pattern, design for Winter</td></tr>
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Another pattern tying in with this time of year is '<i>Seasons</i>', first recorded in about 1837. At this time the company was known as <a href="https://tldrify.com/sqh" target="_blank">Copeland & Garrett.</a> There are different versions of the pattern and it is also called '<i>Italian Garden</i>' and there is a version called '<i>Seasons Star</i>'. The central design for Winter features ice skaters in front of The Kremlin behind a large vase, inscribed '<i>Winter</i>', full of tumbling flowers & foliage.<br />
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The '<i>Seasons</i>' name refers as much to the border of the pattern which depicts four cherubs, representing Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, as to the centres, which are sometimes named with a month or season.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of border design depicting cherubs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>'Italian Garden</i>', <a href="https://tldrify.com/sqi" target="_blank">backstamp</a> c1842</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Footbath, <i>Seasons Star </i>printed in green (from <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1833-1847-copeland-garrett-late-spode-505194705" target="_blank">Worthpoint</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Footbath (detail), <i>Seasons Star </i>printed in green (from <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1833-1847-copeland-garrett-late-spode-505194705" target="_blank">Worthpoint</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">You can find more black & white images of '</span><i style="text-align: center;">Seasons</i><span style="text-align: center;">' pattern </span><a href="http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/chs/22/chs22-1g5.htm" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">HERE></a>Pam Woolliscrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496068853401956557noreply@blogger.com