Sauce tureen, cover and stand
Factory: Spode
Bone china, decorated with moulded floral 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 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 daffodil and moss rose surrounded by a gold circle. Outside this there is a pale blue border painted with four polychrome stems of tulip, vetch, ranunculus and tulip, and a wide horizontal gold band. The outside has pale blue border with four raised 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 of the base is painted in purple enamel ‘Daffodil & Moss Rose/Spode 2004’. The cover (A) has a central polychrome stems of purple poppy & crowfoot around the gold butterfly knob, and a pale blue border with three reserved raised floral sprays with three polychrome floral stems of rose, tulip and lily-of-the-valley between them, edged by a gold band. The underside is painted in purple with ‘Purple poppy &/crowfoot./Spode 2004’. The stand (B). has stems of two-coloured marigold and bird eye in the centre, and a border ensuite with the other pieces, but with stems of rose, white edged poppy and purple convoluvulus. The underside is inscribed in purple enamel ‘Two Coloured Marigold & Bird eye/Spode, 2004.’
History note: 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
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L.D. Cunliffe Fund
Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Bonhams
19th Century, Early#
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1825
CE
This pattern was introduced about 1813-1814 and remained popular for many years. Bonham's dated the Trelissick service to c. 1825.
Decoration
composed of
ground colour
( pale blue)
enamel
( polychrome)
gold
Tureen
Diameter 14.8 cm
Height 14.5 cm
Width 19 cm
Stand
Diameter 17 cm
Height 2.5 cm
clear
Glaze
Bone china
Moulding
: Bone china, moulded in three parts, decorated with raised floral reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, flower painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Glazing
Inscription present: Circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.9.3 & A & B-2013
Primary reference Number: 197506
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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