Pattern 814 Spode bone china Old Oval shape Teapot decorated with carmine coloured leaves, red berries and gilt tendrils. The leaves comprise of a detailed dot & skeletal technique which would have been tediously slow to produce. This design was introduced by Josiah Spode II c1805 which was also the date that the Old Oval shape tea wares were replaced with the New Oval shape.
You can see some wear to the gilding on the handle and there is staining to the Teapot Stand (the Teapot Cover has also been broken & restuck) but all in all it still displays very well considering these are very early Spode bone china pieces.
I love the glistening gold on the spout and the wavy gilt pattern which reminds me of River Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans).
This was a popular design and several other English manufacturers produced similar ones including Minton (their pattern 85), Coalport & New Hall (their pattern 443). Later on during c1805 Spode produced another version of this design using their newly developed platinum lustre decoration instead of the carmine enamel colour.
This Spode Teapot is nice and clean inside & you can see the domed strainer at the base of the spout. The opening is a little bit different in shape to that seen on Spode's Teapot Pattern 498 (illustrated on this site), and the base of the Teapot Cover is also shaped slightly differently.
The base of the Teapot is marked with its pattern number '814' in gilt together with 'No' which is unusual for Spode pieces. There is a potter's number '224' impressed to the base and a dealer's label for Scottish Antiques Inc.co.uk.
This Teapot together with other matching Spode tea ware was sold by Christies New York on 9/10th Feb 2016 as Lot 469 in their 'Living with Art' sale, you can see the details here:
Lot 469 was presumably purchased by Scottish Antiques, you can see the details here: