Worcester Fine

Spode Christmas Tree Plate

The foundation

The organization was founded by Josiah Spode, who earned famous in the ceramic company for perfecting the blue underglaze printing method in 1784 and for co-developing the formula for good bone china. He exposed a factory in Stoke-on-Trent in 1767 and in 1776 produced the current Spode factory. His company in creamware (a good cream-coloured earthenware) and in pearlware (a good white-glazed earthenware) was extremely successful.

Underglaze blue transfers

Josiah Spode I is credited with the rewards of underglaze blue exchange printing into Staffordshire, in 1781-84. Worcester and Bow had commenced exchange printing in 1756, and Wedgwood released a similar process to Staffordshire in blacks and reds making use of Liverpool engravers. Liverpool pottery also developed tiles by a variant exchange approach. William Adams of Cobridge followed with overglaze blue transfers. But it was via the engraver Thomas Lucas and printer James Richard of the Caughley factory, within the tradition there of Robert Hancock and Thomas Turner, who had created transfers absorbing the Chinese character with the painted designs of Worcester pottery, that Spode launched the blue underglaze transfer to Staffordshire ‘in a bid for supremacy in utilitarian ware.’ Thomas Minton also developed transfers for Spode.

This technique involved the engraving of a design on a copper plate, which was then imprinted onto gummed tissue. The colour paste was worked into the cut areas on the copper plate and wiped from the uncut surfaces, and then printed by passing through rollers. These styles, including edge-patterns which had to be manipulated in sections,were cut out making use of scissors and applied to the biscuit-fired ware (employing a white fabric), itself prepared having a gum solution. The tissue was then floated off in water, leaving the glaze pattern adhering for the plate. This was then dipped in the overglaze and returned towards kiln for the glost firing. Blue underglaze transfer became a standard attribute of Staffordshire pottery. Spode also employed on-glaze transfers for other wares. The well-known Spode blue-and-white dinner services with engraved sporting scenes and Italian views had been produced under Josiah Spode the younger, but ongoing being reproduced into a lot later times.

Later forms of the business

Messrs Spode had been succeeded in the very same enterprise in c. 1833 by Copeland and Garrett, who often utilized the name Spode in their marks. In specific these are named ‘Late Spode’ and contain productions on the so-called ‘Felspar porcelain’. They also produced other kinds of bone china, earthenware, parian, etc. The partnership ongoing in this form till 1847. Right after 1847 the organization continued till 1970 as W.T. Copeland and sons, and again the term ‘Spode’ or ‘Late Spode’ continued in use alongside the name of Copeland. Under the name ‘Spode Ltd’ the very same factories and organization was continued after 1970.

In 2006, the company merged with Royal Worcester. The merged company entered administration on 6 November 2008. On 23 April 2009 Portmeirion Pottery bought the rival Royal Worcester and Spode brands, together with some with the stock, soon after their parent firm had been placed into administration the previous November. The buy doesn’t contain Royal Worcester and Spode’s manufacturing facilities.

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