A Spode dessert service, circa 1810

painted with flowers and scale blue panels on an orange ground with gilded foliate scrolls, comprising; two ice-pails, covers and liners, four shaped dishes, three shell dishes, four oval dishes, two oval sauce tureens, covers and stands and twenty-five plates, pattern number 1104 in iron-red

Several pieces in the service are affected by glaze crazing. Ice pail covers, both knops are missing Ice pail liners, one has three hairline cracks, the other has been repaired with extensive rivets. Ice pails, one with section repaired by extensive rivets, and a short hairline crack; the other with three short hairline cracks to rim. 1 oval sauce tureen with a handle missing, 1 cover has been broken and riveted and 1 stand with a hairline crack. 10 plates are cracked and 4 are cracked and riveted. 1 oval dish has a section riveted, another has a section of restoration at the rim. 1 shell shaped dish has a riveted crack, another with section of handle lacking and riveted, the third with a hairline crack to rim. 1 round dish is riveted.
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