An early Spode bone china Bute shape Coffee Can produced by Josiah Spode II circa 1801. It is hand-painted with an undulating iron-red 'ribbon' & gilt foliage. Minton also produced a similar design which was their pattern number 94 (ii) & it included more gilt sprigs below the 'ribbon' whereas Josiah Spode left his in plain white bone china (because he could).
These Spode porcelain coffee cans only stand 2.5 inches or 6.5 cms tall & wide (not including the handle). They are the exact size of a modern espresso coffee cup.
About a year before his sudden death in 1797 Josiah Spode I had developed a new type of porcelain which he named 'Stoke China' but because of the high proportion of calcined ox-bone in its formula it quickly became known as 'Bone China'.
Josiah Spode I's 1796 formulation for bone china remains the basis for all bone china production up to the present day. Here is a link to wikipedia & bone china development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_china
Although his son, Josiah Spode II had been fully trained as a Master Potter, he had been running their growing London retail/wholesale ceramic business for the previous 20 years when his father died. In Spode I's will he had requested that his son Spode II return home to take control of the manufacturing site. Spode II decided to leave his eldest son William Spode in partnership with William Copeland, a trusted employee, to run the London business jointly whilst he returned home to Stoke-on-Trent.
The Spode 'kinked' handle is rather exaggerated on some of these early pieces & became slightly smaller in subsequent years & less kinked towards the end of their production period c1818.
Of the first 300 Spode patterns which commenced c1799, 243 are either missing or incomplete in the early Spode Pattern Books. Robert Copeland in his book 'Spode & Copeland Marks & Other Relevant Intelligence' (second edition), lists all the pattern numbers which are missing or incomplete on page 146.