19th Century 140 Piece Spode Imperial Service

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19th Century 140 Piece Spode Imperial Service

About the Item

A 19th century 140 piece Spode imperial service. To include, 9 inch first course or dessert plates x 39, 10 inch dinner plates x 52, Small ashet plates x 4, Pair of rectangular dessert dishes, Single rectangular dessert dish, Soup dishes x 22, Pair of large ashets, Turkey plate and strainer, Rectangular dishes with dome covers x 3, Pair of large soup tureens with dome lids and bases, Pair of platters, A large meat ashet, A rectangular dish. Provenance Spode is a Stoke-on-Trent based pottery company that was founded by Josiah Spode (1733–1797) in 1770. Josiah Spode earned renown for perfecting under-glaze blue transfer printing in 1783–1784 – a development that led to the launch in 1816 of Spode's Blue Italian range which has remained in production ever since. Josiah Spode is also often credited with developing a successful formula for fine bone china. Whether this is true or not, his son, Josiah Spode II, was certainly responsible for the successful marketing of English bone china. Josiah Spode is credited with the introduction of underglaze blue transfer printing on earthenware in 1783–84. The Worcester and Caughley factories had commenced transfer printing underglaze and over glaze on porcelain in the early 1750s, and from 1756 overglaze printing was also applied to earthenware and stoneware. The processes for underglaze and over glaze decoration were very different. Over glaze "bat printing" on earthenware was a fairly straightforward process, and designs in a range of colors including black, red and lilac were produced. Underglaze "hot-press" printing was limited to the colors that would withstand the subsequent glaze firing, and a rich blue was the predominant color. To adapt the process from the production of small porcelain tea wares to larger earthenware dinner wares required the creation of more flexible paper to transmit the designs from the engraved copper plate to the biscuit earthenware body, and the development of a glaze recipe that brought the color of the black-blue cobalt print to a brilliant perfection. When Spode employed the skilled engraver Thomas Lucas and printer James Richard, both of the Caughley factory, in 1783 he was able to introduce high quality blue printed earthenware to the market. Thomas Minton, another Caughley-trained engraver, also supplied copper plates to Spode until he opened his own factory in Stoke-on-Trent in 1796.

Dimensions:
Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 140
Materials and Techniques:
Ceramic
Place of Origin:
United Kingdom
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1820
Condition:
Seller Location:
Peterborough, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 68091stDibs: LU103281276406