IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197505 accession number: C.9.2 & A & B-2013 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 3 December 2013 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, moulded with reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding. The hemispherical bowl has a butterfly handle on opposing sides, and is supported on a circular slightly concave foot rising up in the middle to an anulet at its junction with the bowl. The cover is slightly domed and rises up in the middle to a circular platform on which is a butterfly knob. On one side of the rim there is a D-shaped aperture to admit a spoon.The circular stand has shallow sloping sides, a raised band surrounding the central reserve, and a slightly concave underside. The inside of the tureen is decorated with sprays of white-edged poppy and purple vetch surrounded by a gold circle. Outside this there is a pale blue border painted with four polychrome floral sprays and a wide horizontal gold band. The outside has pale blue border with four floral sprays in reserve, between which are four floral sprays painted in polychrome enamels with a gold band below, and a thicker band on the rim. The foot has a plain pale blue border with a narrow inner gold band and a thicker band on the edge. The handles are entirely gilt. The underside is inscribed ‘White eged (sic) Poppy & Vetch’. The cover (A) has a central polychrome sprays of anemone and bristly-leaved aster around the gold butterfly knob, and a pale blue border with three reserved raised floral sprays and three different polychrome floral sprays between them, edged by a gold band. The underside is inscribed in the middle in purple enamel ‘Anemone & Bristly leav’d aster/Spode 2004’. The stand (B). has spring crocus and pheasant’s eye in the centre, and a border ensuite with the other pieces, but with three different plants, one of which is a rose and buds. The base is inscribed in purple enamel ‘Spring Crocus & Pheasants eye./Spode, 2004.’ object type: bone china, decorated with floral reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, flower-painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding title: sauce tureen NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L.D. Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197505 PEOPLE ------------------- Copeland, Ronald Spencer Trelissick House SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china, made in three main parts, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Spode CITATIONS -------- The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection The Copeland China Collection at Trelissick Mansion, Cornwall Flora Ceramica. Spode's Floral Patterns & Curtis's Botanical Magazine Spode & Copeland Marks and other Relevant Intelligence ---