CIRCA 1820, ALMOST CERTAINLY SPODE

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A PAIR OF ENGLISH GOLD-GROUND ICE-PAIL COVERS AND LINERS
Circa 1820, almost certainly Spode
Each with deep waisted cover, inset with a gilt ring finial on tall tripod stem moulded with three leaf tips, the shield-shape body with paired bracket handles, the lower portions as a garland, reserved and painted on a burnished gold band with pink roses, a similar medallion reserved front and back on the white ground gilt with stars and polka dots, the cover rims and side of the socle foot with stylized trailing vine, the socle itself reserved and gilt with leaf tips, on further square gold base
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high (6)

Lot Essay

See Leonard Whiter, Spode, A History of the Family, Factory and Wares from 1733-1833, London, 1970, p. 95 for ice-pail designs from the Spode factory's 1820 shape book. The example illustrated on the second row, second from the right, has the same distinctive finial as that found on the present ice pails. See also color plate V for an écuelle, cover and stand painted with fruit on a burnished gold ground, an example of Spode gilding and painting at its best.

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