Maker: Josiah Spode
Period: Regency
The Spode dessert plate and the bread-and-butter plate are in the ‘bamboo and rock’ pattern. They are painted with green enamelled rocks and chrysanthemums, and black and gilt bamboo. The green palette and the style of painting are inspired by 18th Century Chinese famille verte porcelains.
The bases are printed in black with ‘Spode.’ Painted in red, there is also the 1653 number of the bamboo & rock pattern which Spode introduced in 1810.
Condition Good overall. Some surface scratching. Two small sections of gilt bamboo have rubbed on larger plate.
Small plate Diameter 18.1 cm
Large plate Diameter 21.5 cm
Net weight: 561 g
Medium: Earthenware
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
