Josiah Spode I ran his factory for almost 30 years, his productions were unmarked and therefore very few of the earliest Spode pieces can be easily identified.
It is thought that he produced a wide range of ceramic bodies, often imitating those of Wedgwood, including creamwares, basalts, stonewares, redwares, Jasperwares and blue-printed pearlwares and early experimental porcelains.
The Spode collection includes 40,000 ceramic items spanning over 200 years from the late 18th Century to 2008. It also includes some 25,000 engraved copper plates from which transfer prints were made for printed ceramic wares.
Josiah I focused his attention on the manufacture of porcelain, a more difficult but much finer material than he had previously made.
In 1796 he introduced a new type of porcelain which he originally called “Stoke China” but shortly afterwards renamed “Bone China”, because of the high proportion of calcined ox-bone in its formula.
It outclassed all other contemporary English porcelains not just in terms of beauty but also of reliability of manufacture, and is recognised as the forerunner of all modern English Bone China.
Some of the Bone china collection I was able to photograph which was on the Teapot contact sheet.
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