Lot Essay
See Robert Copeland, Spode Copeland 1765-1965, Exhibition Catalogue Det Danke Kunstindustriemuseum Kobenhavn, Stoke-en-Trent, 1966, p. 37, fig. 76 and 81 for an example of Hürten's flower painting on a centerpiece and for a plate of the same form. Here noted as 'the greatest flower painter of his time'.