Period: Regency
Maker: Josiah Spode
Hand-painted summer flowers and fine gilding enhance the elegant profile of Spode’s Bell Shape in this charming coffee cup and saucer from 1825. Bright flowers spill out of gilt baskets between curling gold acanthus leaves and stylised palmettes. Note the extra detail of tiny gilt dots either side of the baskets.
SPODE is painted on the bottom of both cup and saucer. The saucer also has the number of the pattern, 3915, introduced in 1825.
Condition Excellent. Minor rubbing to one of the gilt palmettes on the saucer (see photograph), otherwise mint.
Saucer Diameter: 14 cm
Cup Height: 7.8 cm; width, including handle: 10.1 cm
Weight: 263 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke on Trent, England
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory
