Art period & date: Regency, 1804
Maker: Josiah Spode
This striking early Spode design is composed of two hand-painted lady’s fans. The pattern wraps around the outside of the coffee can. One fan is splayed like the tail feathers of a fancy bird, while the other resembles a finely veined, heart-shaped leaf. The Spode pattern number is 685. It was introduced in 1804.
Miles Mason’s 245 pattern is similar but in different colours.
Condition The coffee can has a star crack in the base but most of the decoration is in good order – just some very minor gilt rubbing and abrasions. The saucer has no damage or repairs, but the gilding is worn in places, and the glazing of the well is crazed and stained with a cup ring.
Coffee can Height: 6.4 cm; Diameter: 6.7 cm; Width across handle: 8.5 cm
Saucer Diameter: 14 cm
Net weight: 216 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)out
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory
