IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197445 accession number: C.9.1-2013 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 5 November 2013 updated: Friday 6 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding.The comport stands on a low sloping oval foot. The bowl is oval with an oval depression in the middle, and deep curved sides which rise up at the narrow ends for the attachment of crabstock handles with foliated terminals. The sides are decorated with four raised floral sprays reserved in a pale blue ground painted in polychrome enamels between them with a tulip, a rose, a poppy and a daffodil. The central depression is painted with a white gelder rose and woody nightshade, within an oval gold band, and there is a gold band on the rim. The back of the sides are decorated in polchrome with four floral sprays: a rose, a poppy, a yellow peony? and a purple flower. The foot has a pale blue ground with two reserved white floral sprays, and at the ends a stem of convolvulus and a buttercup. The names of the plants in the central reserve are painted on underside of the bowl in pale puce: ‘Gelder Rose & Woody nightshade’ object type: bone china, decorated with moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, flower painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding title: comport NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002), Trelissick House, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall; William Copeland (b. 1966); sold Bonham's 23-24 July, 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China China Collection, Feock, nr Truro, Cornwall, day 2, part of lot 491 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and the L. D. Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197445 PEOPLE ------------------- Copeland, Ronald Spencer Trelissick House TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Spode DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 dimension: Length units: cm value: 37.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: 200 Years of Spode CITATIONS -------- 200 Years of Spode The Copeland China Collection at Trelissick Mansion, Cornwall Flora Ceramica. Spode's Floral Patterns & Curtis's Botanical Magazine Spode & Copeland Marks and other Relevant Intelligence ---