Current Location: In storage
Titles
Lozenge-shaped dish from a dessert service
Maker(s)
Factory:
Spode
Entities
Categories
Description
Bone china, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in blue, shades of green, yellow, shades of pink, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilding. Lozenge-shaped with shallow sloping sides, and flat base. The flat area inside is decorated with a stem bearing a pink rose and a bud, and a stem of blue bird eye surrounded by a lozenge-shaped gold line. The sides have a raised white floral sprays reserved in a pale blue ground alternating with four polychrome enamel sprays: one yellow flower, two orange flowers and one purple. A thick gold band runs round the edge. The base is inscribed in purple ‘Rose & Bird eye./Spode,2004’.
Notes
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
Legal notes
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L.D. Cunliffe Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 2.2 cm
Length: 25.6 cm
Width: 16.2 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
This botanical pattern, no. 2004, was introduced by the Spode factory in 1813 or 1814 and remained popular for many years. This dish belongs to a dessert service, accompanied by matching breakfast, tea and coffee wares formerly in the Copeland collection at Trellissick Mansion, Cornwall. When sold by Bonham's in 2013, the service was dated to c. 1825.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, shades of green, yellow, shades of pink, red, purple, and brown)
ground colour
( pale blue)
gold
Materials used in production
Glaze
Bone china
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Bone china, press-moulded, glazed, and decorated with pale blue ground colour, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: Spode 2004
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in purple enamel
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: Rose & Bird eye.
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in purple enamel
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: RSC in monogram over SPODE printed in black, S81 hand-written in red
- 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/M
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in blue biro
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.9.12-2013
Primary reference Number: 197518
Old object number: S 81M
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 3 December 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
