Spode - Copeland - Table service (8) - broth set - Porcelain - Spode's Tower






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Elegant consommé service with a 4-serving consommé plate, produced by Spode in white ceramic, decorated in cobalt blue on a white ground according to the tradition of celebrated English transfer printing productions.
The service features a refined decoration named "Spode's Tower" with romantic-sense landscapes depicting buildings, bridges, waterways, and trees, enclosed within rich floral and geometric borders. The central motif is framed by a heavily decorated blue band with small flowers and ornamental motifs, while the shaped and gently wavy edges impart a particular elegance to the pieces.
The decoration "Spode's Tower" was introduced in 1814 and derives from an illustration printed in Merigot's book "Views of Rome and its Vicinity" published c. 1796–1798. The tower depicts the Salaro Bridge, near Rome. The bridge, which originally had a jetty built over it, now lies beneath the main road that leads from Rome to the airport.
The service well represents the taste of English tableware of the eighteenth–nineteenth-century tradition, particularly valued for the transfer printing technique and for the use of the characteristic cobalt blue. The decoration evokes the great tradition of English and Oriental blue-and-white wares.
Two cups bear a mark newer than the rest of the dishes.
Seller's Story
Elegant consommé service with a 4-serving consommé plate, produced by Spode in white ceramic, decorated in cobalt blue on a white ground according to the tradition of celebrated English transfer printing productions.
The service features a refined decoration named "Spode's Tower" with romantic-sense landscapes depicting buildings, bridges, waterways, and trees, enclosed within rich floral and geometric borders. The central motif is framed by a heavily decorated blue band with small flowers and ornamental motifs, while the shaped and gently wavy edges impart a particular elegance to the pieces.
The decoration "Spode's Tower" was introduced in 1814 and derives from an illustration printed in Merigot's book "Views of Rome and its Vicinity" published c. 1796–1798. The tower depicts the Salaro Bridge, near Rome. The bridge, which originally had a jetty built over it, now lies beneath the main road that leads from Rome to the airport.
The service well represents the taste of English tableware of the eighteenth–nineteenth-century tradition, particularly valued for the transfer printing technique and for the use of the characteristic cobalt blue. The decoration evokes the great tradition of English and Oriental blue-and-white wares.
Two cups bear a mark newer than the rest of the dishes.
