A Spode ironstone part dinner-service printed and painted in the famille rose palette with exotic birds perched on stylised rockwork among flowering peonies issuing from green mounds within vandyke borders below sprays of flowers and shaped brown-line rims, comprising: two octagonal sauce-tureens, covers and stands with Qilin's head handles, the covers with richly gilt artichoke finials; four octagonal stands of varrying sizes; twelve dinner-plates; ten soup-plates; and nine side-plates, pattern no. 2118, printed marks, circa 1815