Pattern 889 Spode bone china Bute shape Coffee Can introduced c1805. It is hand-painted with two-tone puce coloured leaves, iron red secondary leaves & tiny flowers together with larger, gilt stylised flowers.
This was an immensely popular design and many English manufacturers produced their own versions of it. Miles Mason's version was their pattern number 422 & Minton had produced it as their pattern number 79 c1797. There were very few copyright laws at this time & any popular designs were soon copied by other manufacturers & Josiah Spode II was no exception.
I do have a Spode pattern 889 coffee can in much better condition which I must get round to photographing (this was the first one to hand). A Teapot in this same pattern can be seen at the Spode Exhibition Online website here: http://www.spodeceramics.com/pottery/ceramics/spode-bone-china
The usual Spode gilding pattern down the kinked handle
I'm afraid dear, you are showing signs of your age, all 200+ years. You're still lovely though, of course!
The design has Oriental influence.
A young British ceramic designer who is greatly interested in the history of English ceramic manufacturing named Richard Brendon started his career designing a Collection of platinum silver & gold lustre cups named Reflect to team with antique saucers. The Reflect Collection which was manufactured in the UK home of ceramic production at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire brings life back to antique saucers missing their other halves and the highly mirrored cups reflected the patterned saucers & united them perfectly. You can see a Spode pattern 889 saucer with a Richard Brendon cup here: https://richardbrendon.com/collections/reflect/products/gold-teacup-spode-saucer-c-1803
Richard used to source all his antique saucers from British Antique Dealers but there is a limit to how many good antique saucers you can find in the UK & so he has moved on since to designing his own full collections which can be seen in some of the most exclusive London hotels.
Richard, a British bone china specialist, believes “that to produce truly innovative products, a firm understanding of what has gone before is essential.” He is therefore constantly researching ceramic styles from the last 300 years and has developed a skill for identifying the best elements from the past and reinterpreting them in unexpected ways to create new and contemporary designs.
I completely agree. I would add that you cannot fully appreciate an item until you know its history.
Almost clean inside
This coffee can is marked in iron-red enamel with its pattern number '889' and 'SPODE' so it was probably made several years after the date of pattern introduction, probably c1810-1815.