Spode and Pattern 2600

This dessert plate, made in bone china, is decorated in pattern number 2600. It dates from about 1817. Decorated with pink roses and sepia leaves, it is all hand painted with no further decoration. It makes for a simple yet pretty design.

Backstamp

Bottle Ovens... and a new book

'Bottle ovens became the most important part of the pottery factory. One disastrous firing could ruin a potbank.' 

From 'Bottle Ovens and the Story of the Final Firing' by Terry Woolliscroft and Pam Woolliscroft

'Conceived, planned, researched, written, designed, printed,
published and distributed entirely in Stoke-on-Trent'

Published by, and available from, Gladstone Pottery Museum; researched and written by Terry Woolliscroft and Pam Woolliscroft.

Images from the book

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