Plate or bowl (Soup plate or bowl)

Description

In terms of the printed ornament displayed here, variations on the "Net Pattern," featuring netted grounds as well as floral motifs, chinoiserie pavilions-in-landscapes reserves and floral borders were made at several factories in England. In Staffordshire, the Spode, Job Ridgeway, John and William Ridgeway, John Denton Bagster (or Baxter), and other factories created versions of the design. Factories in Liverpool, Lancashire, also created Net Patterns, including at the Seacombe and Herculaneum potteries. This object is one of several in this assembled service that bears a Spode factory mark. Spode marked pieces in the group include a dish, sauceboat, and plates (1996.0027.008.004, .006, .013, .018, .019, .025). (Winterthur is grateful to The Transferware Collectors Club for research support provided by the Paul and Gladys Richards Research Grant Program for Studies in British Transferware.)