Pattern 518 Spode bone china Bute shape Coffee Can & Saucer produced by Josiah Spode II c1803. The design features a hand-painted grapevine & leaves in brown enamel together with rich gilding. This design was popular and was produced by other English manufacturers at this time notably by Flight Worcester porcelain.
The coffee can illustrates how impressive this design was when new, sadly the saucer is a little worn and not quite so impressive.
The usual gilding down the Spode kinked handle
The only mark which appears on the base of the Coffee Can was a worker's mark possibly the gilder's.
A photograph of a Spode part tea service in this same pattern 518 is illustrated in Robert Copeland's book (second edition) 'Spode & Copeland Marks & other Relevant Intelligence' on page 147. He also lists all the Spode pattern numbers which are either missing or which have incomplete information in the earliest Spode Pattern Books. Pattern number 518 is one of the 'missing' paper records.