Spode
Spode is one of the greatest names of the Industrial Revolution concentrating on the production of ceramic wares of the finest quality in a variety of bodies. Josiah Spode is particularly recognised as having developed the technique for underglaze transfer printing on earthenware and to have produced the first printed “Willow” patterns 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” As the technique for transfer printing on earthenwares was perfected, Spode’s blue and white transfer printed wares were generally considered to be among the finest ever made. The most famous pattern of which, “Italian”, introduced in
1816, continues to be made in quantity to this day.
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