Dish
Spode
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1826
Materials
Ceramic; paint; gilt; glaze
Collection
Trelissick, Cornwall
NT 1296235.5.2
Summary
Smaller basket-shaped dish; in Worcester style, with pierced borders in the form of interlocking rings. Part of an extensive Spode service, circa 1826. Presented by Josiah Spode II to William Taylor Copeland on his marriage. The exterior is coloured with a pale yellow ground applied with flower heads coloured in pink; the interior is painted with sprays of flowers within gilt scroll borders, reserved on a scale blue ground. The service is comprised of two tureens (with gilt butterfly handle detail), covers and stands; twenty plates; a centrepiece, eight large basket-shaped dishes, and four smaller basket-shaped dishes. 39 pieces; all marked SPODE.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from William Copeland via Bonhams at 'The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection' sale, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, 23-24th July 2013, lot 476. Exhibited: Spode Bicentenary Exhibition 1970, no. 239. The set was given to Richard Pirie Copeland by William Fowler Mountford Copeland in 1903. The service was originally given as a wedding present to Mrs. Copeland by Josiah Spode II: William Taylor Copeland married Sarah Yates on 29th April 1826. Pieces are illustrated in Arthur Hayden, 'Spode and his Successors' (1925) p. 162 and Vega Wilkinson, 'The Copeland China Collection' (1989), p. 9, fig. S184.
Credit line
Trelissick House, The Copeland Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
SPODE
Makers and roles
Spode , maker