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Josiah Spode opened a small factory in England in 1780, and experimented until he created the formula for fine bone china, the perfect, durable white ceramic that everyone was seeking. Spode has continued making china ever since, though the name has changed a few times as the company changed hands.
I’m the curator of the ceramics bit of the Bowes Museum. It’s a big museum with 30 galleries of which thr… [more]
I started as a collector and I’m a web designer, so I thought I would design a website from my passion. I t… [more]
Jan-Erik Nilsson's extensive reference on antique Chinese porcelain. Jam-packed with information (e.g. on porcelain… [read review or visit site]
Mark Gonzalez's fantastic American Dinnerware site features a comprehensive index of potteries along the upper Ohio… [read review or visit site]
Dedicated to Watt Pottery collectors everywhere, this site features an extensive database on Watt creations includi… [read review or visit site]
The museum with the world's largest collection of Worcester porcelain is a good starting point for beginning collec… [read review or visit site]
Don't miss this collaborative reference guide to china and dinnerware used in public, commercial venues. The site c… [read review or visit site]
Steve Birks' super deep site is a tribute to a bygone era, chronicling how a pottery center of excellence (they did… [read review or visit site]
This gallery showcases 2,130 of the 5,000 items in the museum's ceramics collection dating from 1500-1900. Include… [read review or visit site]
A great reference on ceramics from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn about different ceramics techniques and st… [read review or visit site]
This website boasts hundreds of beautiful ceramics items with detailed descriptions. Start browsing here, and keep … [read review or visit site]
This microsite from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts features objects from the Institute’s permanent collection,… [read review or visit site]
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There are many fine examples here, the direct ancestors of the handsome Wedgwood and Spode tea services that our grandmothers kept for their more formal...Read more
Very Unusual 19th C Continental Variegated Hardstone Vessel with dangles of seed pearls and coral beads; Copeland Spode "Greek" Plates;...Read more
Once-great names such as Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Minton and Spode are no longer what they were, if they exist at all; vast rows of kilns have disappeared,...Read more
Watch for the Rosebud Chintz cup and saucer by Spode/Copeland, a recent gift to the society collection. A devoted Laura Ingalls Wilder fan, Sharon Schaller,...Read more
That's saying something, because the competition was some of the finest European firms like Spode, Minton, Grindley and Haviland...Read more
The proposals for the purchase of the Spode site will be put to the council's cabinet for a final decision later this month. Pottery giant Spode went into...Read more
Motto ware; 5 Dorchester pottery mugs, 1953; Amphora bust of a woman and more. Asian Items: fine carved jade sensor on custom base; framed Japanese colored...Read more
In the past five years some of the region's most famous companies have run into trouble, including Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, Spode and Royal Doulton...Read more
