Plate from a Dessert Service
Factory: Spode
Bone china, decorated with reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, flower-painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Parrot Bone china, press-moulded with reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in yellow, green, rose pink, red, purple, and greenish-brown enamels, and gilding. Circular with an alternately long and short arcs round the edge, slightly concave rim, and shallow curved well, standing on a footring. Slightly off centre there is a purple and yellow parrot tulip with a leaf, and a stem with two rose buds. The rim has three raised white floral sprays reserved in a pale blue ground alternating with three polychrome enamel sprays: a red tulip, a yellow ranunculus and a bud, and a stem with two purple flowers and a bud, perhaps astor. A narrow gold band runs round the inner edge and a broader gold band runs round the outer edge. The base is painted in red enamel ‘SPODE/2004’.
History note: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); by descent to William Copeland (b. 1966); sold Bonham’s 23-24 July, 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China China Collection, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, day 2, part of lot 491
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L.D. Cunliffe Fund
Diameter: 21.7 cm
Height: 2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Bonhams
19th Century, Early#
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1825
CE
This design was introduced in 1813 or 1814 and remained popular for many years. The Trelissick service was dated to c. 1825 when sold by Bonham's in 2013
Decoration composed of ground colour ( pale blue) enamel ( yellow, green, rose pink, red, purple, and greenish-brown) gold
Pressing
: Bone china, press-moulded and decorated with pale blue ground colour, painting in in yellow, green, rose pink, red, purple, and greenish-brown enamels, and gilding
Glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.9.30-2013
Primary reference Number: 197547
Old object number: S 81 Ra
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate from a Dessert Service" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/197547 Accessed: 2024-11-05 07:56:01
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/197547
|title=Plate from a Dessert Service
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 07:56:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-197547
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...