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Regency Large Coalport Porcelain Dessert Service-Thirty Nine Pieces

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Spode Porcelain Dessert Service, Probably Pattern 2314, 58 Pieces, Circa 1815 Circa 1815 This extensive Spode bone china dessert service of fifty-eight pieces was made at the height of the Regency period, circa 1815, and is decorated in what is probably pattern 2314, a richly gilded chinoiserie design that combines a Chinese famille rose flower group with cobalt blue and gold cartouches in the manner of the factory’s Japan patterns. The center of each piece is painted with a spray of flowers in the Chinese taste: a large rose-pink peony, a crimson many-petaled flower and several yellow-orange blossoms among green and turquoise leaves, growing from a stylized cobalt blue rock with two turquoise roundels and a trailing blue ribbon at its base. Every flower is edged and veined in gold. The borders are molded with a gadrooned edge picked out in gold and painted with shaped panels of cobalt blue, the ground worked with a gilt seeded diaper and each panel reserved with a gilt flowering spray within a lobed cartouche edged with gilt fronds. Between the blue panels the white ground carries a pink pear-shaped cartouche, edged in gold and enclosing a small flower spray, flanked by rose-pink flowers and scrolling green leaves beneath a band of pale yellow gilt lattice diaper at the rim. The plates have four blue panels and four reserves, and the dishes, tureens and comports repeat the scheme in proportion to their shapes. The tureen covers are surmounted by ribbed knops in cobalt blue and gold, and the comports are raised on stems molded with gilt-edged acanthus leaves above spreading feet painted with the same flowers. Composition (fifty-eight pieces) 30 dessert plates: diameter 8 3/8 inches (21.3 cm) 4 shell dishes: length 11 inches (27.9 cm) 4 square dishes: width 9 1/2 inches (24.1 cm) 4 boat-shaped dishes: length 10 1/4 inches (26 cm) 4 circular dishes: diameter 10 1/4 inches (26 cm) 2 covered round tureens: width 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm) 2 covered boat-shaped tureens: length 9 1/2 inches (24.1 cm) 2 high footed comports: diameter 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm), height 4 1/2 inches (11.4 cm) 6 small square dishes: width 4 1/2 inches (11.4 cm) Provenance Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Condition Good. Three plates with repaired frits to the rim, the tazza rubbed, one sauce tureen with a small crack, one shell-shaped dish with a hairline to the rim. References Whiter, Leonard. Spode: A History of the Family, Factory and Wares from 1733 to 1833. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970. For Spode’s bone china, the dating of pattern numbers in the 2000s to around 1815, and the factory’s chinoiserie and Japan patterns. Copeland, Robert. Spode’s Willow Pattern and Other Designs after the Chinese. London: Studio Vista, 2nd ed., 1990 (first published 1980). For Spode’s designs after Chinese porcelain. Hayden, Arthur. Chats on English China. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. For the role of the dessert service in the Regency dining room. Historical Context The service dates from the most celebrated period of the Spode factory at Stoke-upon-Trent under Josiah Spode II (1755–1827). His father, Josiah Spode I, is credited with perfecting the standard formula for bone china around 1796–1800, and it was the whiteness and strength of this body that allowed the dense enamel colors and lavish gilding seen here. Spode pattern numbers in the 2000s are dated by Whiter to around 1815, which places the service in the middle years of the Regency. The design is an English interpretation of Chinese export porcelain. The flower group derives from the famille rose wares of the eighteenth century, while the cobalt and gold cartouches borrow from the Japan patterns that Spode developed from Japanese Imari porcelain. Elaborate dessert services of this kind were the showpieces of the Regency dinner table, brought out for the final formal course, and the amount of hand-gilding in this pattern made it one of the most expensive productions of the factory.
  • Creator:
    Coalport Porcelain (Designer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 1 in (2.54 cm)Diameter: 9 in (22.86 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 39
  • Style:
    Regency (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Porcelain,Hand-Painted
  • Place of Origin:
    England
  • Period:
    Early 19th Century
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1820-1835
  • Condition:
    Repaired: 1 finial off-on & three plates with repaired frits to rim, tazza has a small crack to foot repaired, one sauce tureen small crack, one shell-shaped dish with hairline to rim. Minor structural damages.
  • Seller Location:
    Downingtown, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: NY04649-miim1stDibs: U090303861031