Oval dish from a dessert service
Factory: Spode
Bone china, decorated with integrally moulded reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding. Elongated oval dish with a wavy edge, and curved sides, standing on an oval footring.
The inside of the dish is decorated with a bulging oval reserve edged in gold and painted in polychrome with auricular and speedwell. The border has four raised floral sprays reserved in a pale blue ground, with painted polychrome stems between them, a rose, a tulip, a convolvulus and a purple crocus. There is a thick gold band round the edge. The base is painted in purple enamel with ‘Auriculer & Speedwell./Spode,2004.
History note: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); 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
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicate Fund and the L.D. Cunliffe Fund
Height: 4.2 cm
Length: 26 cm
Width: 17.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Bonhams
Early 19th Century
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1825
CE
Decoration
composed of
ground colour
( pale blue)
enamel
( polychrome)
gold
Decoratio
Moulding
: Bone china, moulded with integral reliefs reserved in a pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper label
Accession number: C.9.8-2013
Primary reference Number: 197512
Old object number: S 81F
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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