CIRCA 1815, IMPRESSED LOWER-CASE MARK, SOME PIECES IMPRESSED H, OTHER IMPRESSED NUMERALS

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A Spode composite part creamware and pearlware transfer-printed dinner-service
Circa 1815, impressed lower-case mark, some pieces impressed H, other impressed numerals
Printed in brown with the 'Greek' pattern of classical figures within shaped cartouches divided by Etruscan vases on a ground of stylised trailing vine, comprising:

A flared oblong octagonal two-handled soup-tureen, cover and ladle (cover cracked, stained)
Six square vegetable-dishes and five covers (two slightly stained, one cover and one base with small crack)
A square salad-bowl (stained)
A grooved rectangular meat-dish, 20½in. (52cm.) wide
A pierced oval mazarine (stained)
Four shaped oval deep dishes (stained, one cracked, another chipped)
Nine shaped oval serving-dishes in three sizes
Three dinner-plates (stained, one cracked)
Thirty-five dessert-plates (ten stained, one chipped, another riveted, four cracked)

Lot Essay

Cf. Leonard Whiter, Spode (1970), pl. 74, 91 and 92. On p. 170 Whiter notes that the designs for the pattern were to a large extent sourced from Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek and Etuscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders. Drawn and engraved by the late Mr. Kirk (1804).

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