Four Vintagr Spode Lancaster R8592 English Bone China Gold Gilded 8/20cm Plates. All four plates have been used over the years and they all have signs of wear so please check all 12 photographs carefully. However, none of the plates have any chips or cracks and the gold gilding is generally intact as shown in 12 photographs attached. These were very expensive sought after UK made Spode plates from an era before Spode production moved to the Far East. All plates have been manufactured in the UK. Very rare and sought after plates handmade and hand decorated in the UK. Spode is one of the greatest names of the Industrial Revolution. Josiah Spode I was born in 1733 and after several years working for other local potters, established his own company in 1776 in Church Street, (then known as High Street) Stoke and, like his neighbour and friend Josiah Wedgwood, concentrating on the production of ceramic wares of the finest quality in a variety of bodies. He is particularly recognised as having developed the technique for underglaze transfer printing on earthenware c. 1784 and to have produced the first printed Willow patterns 1784-90s. He focused his attention on the manufacture of porcelain, a technically more difficult but much finer material than he had previously made, introducing in 1796 a new type of porcelain which he first called Stoke China but shortly afterwards renamed Bone China, because of the high proportion of calcined ox-bone in its formula. Josiah Spode I died suddenly in 1797 and it fell to his son Josiah Spode II to continue and perfect his fathers developments. Spode II was appointed Potter to the Prince of Wales when the Prince Regent visited the factory in 1806. Josiah IIs china bodies, first Bone China and, from 1822, its derivative, Felspar Porcelain, outclassed all other contemporary English porcelains not just in terms of beauty but also of reliability of manufacture. Spodes Felspar Porcelain is recognised as the forerunner of all modern English Bone Chin. The item “Four Vintage Spode Lancaster R8592 English Bone China Gold Gilded 8/20cm Plates” is in sale since Thursday, August 30, 2018. This item is in the category “Pottery, Porcelain & Glass\Porcelain/China\Spode/Copeland\Tableware”. The seller is “santoor-uk” and is located in Eccles, Greater Manchester. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Manufacturer/ Type: Spode/ Copeland
- Material: Porcelain/ China
- Product Type: 8″ Plates
- Date: 1920-1939 (Art Deco)
- Use: Tableware
- Boxed/ Unboxed: Unboxed
- MPN: R8592
- Sub-Type: British
- Style: Art Deco
- Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
- Colour: Pink & White
- Date Range: 1920-1939 (Art Deco)
- Object Type: Plates
- Year of Manufacture: 1920s
