Meat Dish
ca. 1820 (made)
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Object Type
Rectangular meat dishes had been an essential part of dinner services since the 18th century, when Chinese porcelain was the only material tough enough to stand the heat and sheer weight of huge joints of meat. By the 1820s, superior English earthenware or bone china versions had been developed, with a gravy well and channels at one end, supported at the other end with a deep flange or separate feet.
Collectors & Owners
This dish is part of a service that was acquired by the V&A from Miss H. M. Gulson, who had inherited it from her uncle, Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893). Although the V&A wished to accept only a token number of pieces because of the impossibility of displaying the service in its entirety, eventually it agreed to take all rather than destroy the integrity of a documentary service. Since 1902 the service has largely remained in store. The British Galleries now provide a fitting permanent display of the many different shapes used in the service.
The Spode family provenance suggests that the service should represent the grandest and most opulent porcelain made at the factory at Stoke-on-Trent in the last years of Spode ownership. The factory archives, now available to collectors, show that the moulded shape is 'Amherst' (named after Lord Amherst, a popular Viceroy of India who retired in 1828) while the pattern 5061 was introduced in 1832. It would seem therefore that Josiah Spode IV, only nine years old in 1832, may have inherited it later from his own father, Josiah Spode III.
Rectangular meat dishes had been an essential part of dinner services since the 18th century, when Chinese porcelain was the only material tough enough to stand the heat and sheer weight of huge joints of meat. By the 1820s, superior English earthenware or bone china versions had been developed, with a gravy well and channels at one end, supported at the other end with a deep flange or separate feet.
Collectors & Owners
This dish is part of a service that was acquired by the V&A from Miss H. M. Gulson, who had inherited it from her uncle, Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893). Although the V&A wished to accept only a token number of pieces because of the impossibility of displaying the service in its entirety, eventually it agreed to take all rather than destroy the integrity of a documentary service. Since 1902 the service has largely remained in store. The British Galleries now provide a fitting permanent display of the many different shapes used in the service.
The Spode family provenance suggests that the service should represent the grandest and most opulent porcelain made at the factory at Stoke-on-Trent in the last years of Spode ownership. The factory archives, now available to collectors, show that the moulded shape is 'Amherst' (named after Lord Amherst, a popular Viceroy of India who retired in 1828) while the pattern 5061 was introduced in 1832. It would seem therefore that Josiah Spode IV, only nine years old in 1832, may have inherited it later from his own father, Josiah Spode III.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Printed in red 'Spode Felspar Porcelain' surrounded by a wreath of the rose, thistle and shamrock |
| Gallery label | British Galleries:
PART OF A DINNER SERVICE About 1820; numbers 30-34, 1831 This large service is characteristic of the extensive and richly decorated porcelain that was available to an increasingly wide range of buyers during this period. Marketing through London showrooms played an important role in the selling of such ensembles. Massed displays were a familiar sight to the visiting public as in the Wedgwood showroom illustrated on the left.(27/03/2003) |
| Credit line | Given by Miss H.M. Gulson |
| Object history | Owned by Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893), of Hawkesyard Park, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, the sole heir to the Spode manufactory, sold in 1833 to the Copeland family. |
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| Summary | Object Type Rectangular meat dishes had been an essential part of dinner services since the 18th century, when Chinese porcelain was the only material tough enough to stand the heat and sheer weight of huge joints of meat. By the 1820s, superior English earthenware or bone china versions had been developed, with a gravy well and channels at one end, supported at the other end with a deep flange or separate feet. Collectors & Owners This dish is part of a service that was acquired by the V&A from Miss H. M. Gulson, who had inherited it from her uncle, Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893). Although the V&A wished to accept only a token number of pieces because of the impossibility of displaying the service in its entirety, eventually it agreed to take all rather than destroy the integrity of a documentary service. Since 1902 the service has largely remained in store. The British Galleries now provide a fitting permanent display of the many different shapes used in the service. The Spode family provenance suggests that the service should represent the grandest and most opulent porcelain made at the factory at Stoke-on-Trent in the last years of Spode ownership. The factory archives, now available to collectors, show that the moulded shape is 'Amherst' (named after Lord Amherst, a popular Viceroy of India who retired in 1828) while the pattern 5061 was introduced in 1832. It would seem therefore that Josiah Spode IV, only nine years old in 1832, may have inherited it later from his own father, Josiah Spode III. |
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| Accession number | 582A-1902 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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