Plate, India

Item Number: P56C
Pattern Name: India
Date: c. 1815-1830
Dimensions: D 9.75″
Maker: Spode
Maker’s Mark: Impressed “Spode”and Printed Workman’s Mark
Description:
A earthenware dinner plate printed in blue with the India pattern. Indented shape.
Designed after a Chinese pattern from the K’ang Hsi period, 1700-22. Pattern introduced by Spode c. 1815.  In the early 1800s the name “India” was often used to describe oriental style. This rare example was printed on the back with the inscription “This BLUE WARE is printed from the CALX of British COBALT produced from Wheal Sparnon Mine in the County of Cornwall August 1816”. The mine was near Redruth in Cornwall and the vein of cobalt was discovered there in 1807 and was later widely used by the Staffordshire potters. It is thought that the India pattern was withdrawn around 1835.
Condition:  Good. Professional restoration to a hairline crack and on small chip to the rim.