An extensive Spode creamware dinner service
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An extensive Spode creamware dinner service

1816, IMPRESSED SPODE ABOVE VARIOUS LETTERS AND INSCRIBED IN BLUE OR IN RED WITH PATTERN NUMBER 2576

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An extensive Spode creamware dinner service
1816, impressed Spode above various letters and inscribed in blue or in red with pattern number 2576
In the Regency style, painted in orange-brown and outlined in blue, decorated to the border with a trompe l'oeil zig-zag banderole reserved with ivy leaves, with arched finials and elongated ear handles, comprising: a large two-handled oval tureen, cover and stand, 43 cm. wide; a two-handled oval tureen, cover and stand, 35 cm. wide; four two-handled oval pierced baskets, 24 cm. wide; a basket en suite, 29.5 cm. wide; four oval pierced stands en suite, 25 cm. wide; four single-handled gravy boats with generous spout, 23 cm. wide; a pair of spoons en suite; a pair of oval covered buttertubs on fixed stand; a pair of two-handled pedestal covered sauceboats on fixed stand, 20 cm. wide; a pair of spoons en suite; a large oval bowl, 35 cm. wide; a pair of cylindrical cups on fixed stand; four lozenge side plates, 24 cm. wide; eight lozenge side plates, 26.5 cm. wide; four lozenge side plates, 30 cm. wide; thirteen oval chargers, in sizes, 31-51 cm. wide; a pair of large circular deep chargers, 48 cm. diam.; a pair of circular strainers; four circular chargers, in sizes; twenty three deep dishes; sixty three dishes, 25 cm. diam.; seven dishes, 28.5 cm. diam.; a pair of oval plates (161)
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C.R.A. van Bommel was born in Leiden in 1790 out of a family of very important textile industrialists. He was ordained as a priest and later enthroned as the bishop of Liège in 1829, just one year before the separation of Holland and Belgium. He became an important prelate in the ecclesiastical history of this part of Europe, actively interfering in wordly affairs, he died in 1852.

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