Pattern 882 Spode bone china Bute shape Coffee Can introduced c1805. This is an English posy of flowers, all hand-painted, which includes roses & forget-me-nots together with a ground composed of gilt scales which showed off the great skill of Henry Daniel's gilders. Henry Daniel & his employees decorated Josiah Spode II's porcelain production from 1805-1822.
The gilt scales were graduated over an object and required great skill to perfect. A similar item (a covered mug) can be seen in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge collection here: http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?qu=spode&oid=40608
The handle on this coffee can is a bit worn so presumably it was well loved
These central flowers look like anemones whose meaning is, 'forsaken or forgotten love & affection'. The language of flowers had been around for centuries but the late 18th century & early 19th century saw a new trend in Romanticism & the use of flower decoration to convey different meanings.
Clean inside with just a little wear to the gilding on the top rim; this is a lovely object
Again no maker's marks to the base to identify it but the quality of the decoration & the handle shape tell us who the manufacturer was.