Date: 1825
Period: Regency
Maker: Josiah Spode
Bright enamelled flowers on white porcelain make a pleasing contrast with the buff ground of these Spode tea wares from 1825.
‘Gadroon’ is the proper name for the moulded edges of the teacup and saucer and round the neck of the bulbous milk jug/creamer. First copied from early silverware, it became one of the dominant shapes of the English potteries and was popularly known as ‘pie crust’ or ‘dog tooth.’ See Plate 268 in Leonard Whiter’s book Spode for other examples of the Gadroon Shape but in a different pattern.
‘Spode’ is painted on the bottom of the cup and ‘4072,’ the number of the Spode pattern introduced in 1825, is on the bases of the saucer and the creamer.
Condition The cup and creamerare both in excellent condition. The saucer has signs of wear: abrasions to white rim of recessed central well and to outer buff ground; minor rubbing to ‘Dontil Edge’ (termed ‘French Edge’ in Spode pattern books) around the centre (couple of 2mm-3mm patches missing), plus an impurity from manufacture.
Milk jug/creamer Height: 11.3 cm; Width, handle to spout: 13.7 cm
Saucer Diameter: 14.1 cm
Cup Height: 6.1 cm; width, including handle: 11.3 cm
Net weight: 485 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke on Trent, England
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory
