Maker: Josiah Spode
Period: Regency
This Regency lozenge-shaped dessert dish is finely painted with English flowers, with white relief sprays against a pale blue ground.
The dish is unusual for its use of ochre enamel paint in place of gilding. This may indicate that the dish was intended for Quaker customers who rejected showiness and favoured the plainest form of dress, for instance without trimmings or lace.
The base is impressed with a cross inside a circle, a mark found on early Spode porcelains between about 1790 and 1820. The impressed 9 or 6 is probably a workman’s mark.
The embossed flowers in the border suggest a date of around 1813 or 1815.
Condition Excellent. Some light surface abrasion.
Length 25.2 cm; Width 18.6 cm; Height 6.2 cm
Net weight: 455 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
