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Comport: C.9.1-2013

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Spode

Entities

Categories

Description

Bone china, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, flower painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding

Bone china, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding.The comport stands on a low sloping oval foot. The bowl is oval with an oval depression in the middle, and deep curved sides which rise up at the narrow ends for the attachment of crabstock handles with foliated terminals. The sides are decorated with four raised floral sprays reserved in a pale blue ground painted in polychrome enamels between them with a tulip, a rose, a poppy and a daffodil. The central depression is painted with a white gelder rose and woody nightshade, within an oval gold band, and there is a gold band on the rim. The back of the sides are decorated in polchrome with four floral sprays: a rose, a poppy, a yellow peony? and a purple flower. The foot has a pale blue ground with two reserved white floral sprays, and at the ends a stem of convolvulus and a buttercup. The names of the plants in the central reserve are painted on underside of the bowl in pale puce: ‘Gelder Rose & Woody nightshade’

Notes

History note: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002), Trelissick House, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall; William Copeland (b. 1966); sold Bonham's 23-24 July, 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China China Collection, Feock, nr Truro, Cornwall, day 2, part of lot 491

Legal notes

Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L. D. Cunliffe Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 15 cm
Length: 37.6 cm
Width: 23.9 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Stoke-on-Trent ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Bonhams

Dating

19th Century, Early#
George IV
Circa 1820 CE - 1825 CE

Note

The pattern number was introduced in 1813 or 1814 and remained popular for many years. Bonham’s cataloguer gave a date of c. 1825 for the service in the Copeland collection at Trelissick, when it was sold in 2013.

School or Style

botanical

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel gold
Border

Materials used in production

Glaze
Bone china

Techniques used in production

Moulding
Glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Spode, 2004
  • Location: On underside of base
  • Method of creation: Painted in pale puce enamel
  • Type: Pattern number
  • Text: S81A
  • Location: On side of foot
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in red ? ink
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: Circular white paper stick on label. RSC is in monogram

  • Text: RSC over SPODE (printed)
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in red ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: Circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: S/81/A
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in blue biro
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.9.1-2013
Primary reference Number: 197445
Old object number: S81A
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 5 November 2013 Updated: Friday 15 December 2023 Last processed: Friday 15 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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