The blue willow pattern created by the Spode Company is, after more than 200 years, the best known of all designs on pottery or porcelain. As the principal reference work on this famous motif, this authoritative guide gives a detailed account of the willow pattern, from its introduction based on traditional Chinese designs through changes resulting from technological developments. Patterns and their variants from Spode and other potters are illustrated and fully described. A valuable resource for collectors!  208 pages (50 in color), 300 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 3/4. THIRD EDITION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Spode's Willow Pattern and Other Designs After the Chinese

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Copeland, Robert

Antiques & Collectibles

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Paperback book by Robert Copeland, it has 182 pages, illustrated, first published 1980, this paperback edition published 1990 by Studio Vista.

Blandford Pr

Briefly traces the history of Spode pottery, and identifies all known marks used by Spode, Copeland and Garrett, and Copeland

Spode & Copeland Marks: And Other Relevant Intelligence

UNKNO

The potter's custom of marking his work enables the collector to identify the age, shape and pattern, and sometimes the artist, retailer and importer, of any given piece. This guide contains every known mark ever used by Spode, Copeland, and Copeland and Garrett, in a single volume. It contains over 300 marks and is heavily illustrated. The author of this book, Robert Copeland, is the great great grandson of William Copeland, Josiah Spode's original partner.

Spode and Copeland Marks : And Other Relevant Intelligence

Cassell Illustrated*

The blue willow pattern created by the Spode Company is, after more than 200 years, the best known of all designs on pottery or porcelain. As the principal reference work on this famous motif, this authoritative guide gives a detailed account of the willow pattern, from its introduction based on traditional Chinese designs through changes resulting from technological developments. Patterns and their variants from Spode and other potters are illustrated and fully described. A valuable resource for collectors! 208 pages (50 in color), 300 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 3/4. THIRD EDITION

Spode's Willow Pattern: And Other Designs After the Chinese

Stduio Vista Books

Wedgwood Ware

Shire Pubns

The two Josiah Spodes, father and son, may be justly regarded as the second most important names in the development of English ceramics. Under their direction, two of the most important products in the English ceramic repertoire were perfected: underglaze transfer printing on earthenware; and fine bone china, a very practical porcelain. The first set the stage for the enormous burgeoning of the transfer-printed trade which became known as 'Staffordshire Blue', including the Willow Patter and Blue Italian. The second, the bone china formula, proved to be so successful that it superseded earlier artificial porcelains and became one of the most sought-after 'traditional' English productions.

Spode (Shire Library)

Shire

Blues made from cobalt were first used widely for painted decoration in China during the fifteenth century. Much of the porcelain imported into Europe was decorated with blue designs, and after about 1650, when tea was introduced, the volume of blue and white 'chinaware' brought back from Canton was enormous. European potters tried to emulate this fine tableware, most successfully on artificial portcelain and tin-glazed earthenwares. The imports from China decline in the 1780s, and owners of Chinese services found it difficult to obtain replacements or additions. To meet this need, British potters copied the hand-painted patterns using the technique of transfer-printing from engraved copper plates. Spode perfected this process, and his wares have never been surpassed.

Blue and White Transfer-Printed Pottery (Shire Library)

Metal is expensive to shape: copper needs polishing and may be injurious to health; iron and steel rust. Ceramic products, made from clay, fired and glazed, can be cleaned easily and are the most hygienic wares available. Although breakable, they can be very decorative and colour. Indeed, a certamic is a thermo-setting plastic and may be formed into many thousands of different articles.

Ceramic Bygones: And Other Unusual Domestic Pottery (Shire Library)

Josiah Wedgwood I was born into a family of potters and became the finest marketing man of his era. His pioneering spirit built up the most important English pottery business of the eighteenth century so that the name Wedgwood became a generic word for fine earthenware. He is justly famous for perfecting the Black Basalt and Jasper stoneware bodies and for producing many designs based on the antique artefacts excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum. This book also reviews and illustrates the firm's products through the nineteenth century, the designs of Lessore, Dresser, Crane and Barnard, the resurgence after 1904 when John Goodwin became art director, and the subsequent restablishment of the firm's essential greatness.

Wedgwood Ware (Shire Library)

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Spode's Willow Pattern and Other Designs After the Chinese

Spode's Willow Pattern and Other Designs After the Chinese

Spode & Copeland Marks: And Other Relevant Intelligence

Spode and Copeland Marks : And Other Relevant Intelligence

Spode's Willow Pattern: And Other Designs After the Chinese

Wedgwood Ware

Spode (Shire Library)

Blue and White Transfer-Printed Pottery (Shire Library)

Ceramic Bygones: And Other Unusual Domestic Pottery (Shire Library)

Wedgwood Ware (Shire Library)