Pattern 1250 Spode bone china Bute shape Coffee Can decorated in another Chinese or Japanese Imari design introduced c1808. This is a very colourful design using the usual Imari palate of enamel colours together with turquoise & green.
It is all hand-painted over most of the exterior surface & the design includes plenty of rich gilding. It was a design for the wealthiest Spode customers & it was obviously a very popular style because patterns 1216 & 1220 are both very similar to this one.
The usual Spode kinked handle decorated with solid gilt
This is another labour intensive design. I can see where the gilder has blobbed on the inside base of the handle, but it doesn't worry me.
There is also a stray spot of cobalt blue enamel inside the can; that is hand-painting for you!
Alexander Pope, an English Poet wrote in 1711 'An Essy on Criticism Part II', words to the effect of 'to err is human, to forgive divine'.
Nice and clean inside, this is a beautiful little object
Still no Spode pattern number or decorator's mark on this coffee can of c1808 but the main pieces of the complete service would probably have been marked with the pattern number in gilt or possibly iron red enamel.
Here is a matching pattern 1250 Spode bone china New Oval shape Sugar Box of c1808. All hand-painted in the Imari taste using cobalt blue, iron red, orange, turquoise & green enamels together with lashings of gilt. These designs were made to look sumptuous in the candle-light of Georgian mansions.
Clean inside with just the usual few spots of cobalt or kiln dust which are part & parcel of early Spode bone china production.
There appears to be no pattern number on this Spode Sugar Box base but there is an impressed letter 'S' on the base rim together with a decorator's mark in red enamel.
There is also a red enamel decorator's mark under the finial of the lid.
Here you can see the impressed letter 'S' on the base rim of the Sugar Box & the decorator has applied his/her mark in red enamel over this. Also at the 11 o'clock position there is a very faint pattern number '1250' in red enamel which only became visible once the item was photographed & enlarged.
Pattern 1250 Spode bone china New Oval shape Creamer all decorated by hand with a fashionable Imari design c1808.
This porcelain Spode Creamer is in very good condition considering it was made as an object to be used & is over 200 years old.
You can always see stray spots of gilt or cobalt on Spode porcelain pieces of this period.
On the front of this Spode Creamer you can see a manufacturer's fault. Where the two halves of the creamer were joined together down the centre the firing process opened it slightly.
This Spode Creamer has the remains of its pattern number '1250' & 'SPODE' in red enamel faintly showing on its base.