Date: circa 1802
Period: Georgian (George III)
Maker: Josiah Spode
This early Spode trio is strongly influenced by Romanticism. The cups have exceptionally fine paintings in sepia of ancient ruins in a wild landscape, regarded by Romantics as evocative symbols of human decay and the unstoppable power of Nature.
Spode introduced the pattern, number 382, in 1802. Landscape subjects differ. Painting in black is more common than in sepia.
Condition The teacup and coffee can are almost perfect: there is some very slight gilt rubbing along the rim edges. The saucer painting, a rural scene with a church steeple, has utensil scratches, and some gilding has rubbed off the rim.
Teacup Height: 5.2 cm; Diameter: 8.1 cm; Width: 9.7 cm with handle Coffee can Height: 5.8 cm; Diameter: 6.4 cm; Width: 8.2 cm with handle Saucer Height: 2.3 cm; Diameter: 14 cm
Weight: 317 g
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
See Spode and Copeland in Makers & Artists for background on the factory
