ANTIQUE (1800-1820) EARLY SPODE CHARCOAL BLACK BAT PRINTED PATTERN TRAY

AN ANTIQUE (1800-1820) SPODE ENGLAND BAT PRINTED PATTERN TRAY (GRAVY BOAT TRAY OR TEAPOT TRAY). THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST SPODE PIECES I HAVE HAD.
IT HAS A CHARCOAL GREY TRANSFER BAT PRINTED SCENE WITH A CLASSICAL ERA LANDSCAPE OF ONE OF BRITAINS NOBLE HOMES WITH A STREAM AND A LADY PLAYING WITH A YOUNG GIRL ON A BENCH IN THE GARDEN.

Charcoal grey bat printed porcelain was introduced by Josiah Spode II c1802-3.  Bat printed designs on Pattern 557 objects notably depicted, romantic ruins set in landscapes, cottages & rural life, bridges, rivers & fishermen and notable houses & castles of the wealthy & lastly classical humanity scenes.

The Spode mark in the early 1800s was an elegant handpainted Spode in script - sometimes in upper case and sometimes in lowercase; usually neat and nearly always in red.
 
BAT PATTERN (1800-1820):
So callled bat printing was used by Spode from about 1800 to 1820. A "glue bat" made from boiled linseed was usd to transfer an oily image from an engraved copper plate to a ceramic. The sticky print was then dusted with finely ground enamel and fired.
Charcoal grey bat printed porcelain was introduced by Josiah Spode II c1802-3.  This was followed c1804 by blue enamel bat printing, reddish brown, known as French Brown c1810, gold c1811, red c1817 or possibly earlier, purple c1818, rose c1819 & green c1821.  Between 1827 & 1833 other colours were also produced.
Bat printed designs on Pattern 557 objects depicted, romantic ruins set in landscapes, cottages & rural life, bridges, rivers & fishermen and notable houses & castles of the wealthy & lastly classical humanity scenes.
 
SIZE: 20x16CM OVAL
CONDITION: SOME SCRAPES TO GOLD GILDED RIMS AND ARTWORK. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. NO CHIPS. NO CRACKS. GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION.
 
MARKINGS: SPODE MARK USED BETWEEN 1770 AND 1833.
THERE ARE MORE THAN 300 IDENTIFYING MARKS, DATEMARKS AND BACKSTAMPS ON COPELAND SPODE POTTERY GOING BACK AS FAR AS 1770. THESE MARKS ARE DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN CATEGORIES, INCLUDING EARLY SPODE FROM 1770 TO 1833, COPELAND & GARRETT FROM 1833 TO 1847, WT COPELAND FROM 1847 TO 1970 AND AND REVERTING BACK TO JUST SPODE FROM 1970 TO 2022.
At the start of the Spode business from 1770 to 1833 the company was known as Spode. Pieces were not always marked and sometimes just a pattern number appears and no Spode name at all. Spode marks are often painted in red and marks can also appear printed usually in blue or black, (although other colours were used) or impressed into the clay so appearing colourless. The Spode mark in the early 1800s was an elegant handpainted Spode in script - sometimes in upper case and sometimes in lowercase; usually neat and nearly always in red.
THE STANDARD MARK WITH THE WORD "COPELAND" ABOVE A SQUARE BOX WITH WHAT LOOKS TO BE CHRISTMAS TREES AND THE WORD SPODE IN THE CENTER AND ENGLAND UNDERNEATH WAS USED FROM 1890 ONWARDS UNTIL 1969. 
FROM 1890 ONWARDS THE NAME OF SPODE WAS AGAIN INTRODUCED TO THE COPELAND MARKS AFTER A LONG ABSENCE SINCE 1833. FROM 1891, IT WAS ALSO REQUIRED TO ADD THE WORD ENGLAND TO PORCELAIN MARKS IN GENERAL BUT PRIMARILY MEANT  FOR THE EXPORT MARKED.
FROM 1970 THE NAME REVERTED BACK JUST TO SPODE AND FROM 1976 THE SPODE LOGO CHANGED TO RED AND THE WORD FINE WAS ADDED TO BONE CHINA IN BLACK.
  
SPODE (1766 - present): Josiah Spode apprenticed as a potter in the mid-1700s. By 1754, he went to work for William Banks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. Later, he started his own pottery business, making cream-colored earthenware.
Spode pioneered the use of steam-powered, pottery-making machinery and mastered the art of transfer printing from copper plates,. Spode opened a London shop in 1778 and sent William Copeland there in about 1784. By the early 1830s, Copeland fully acquired the Spode operations in London and took over the Stoke plant operations until his death in 1868, when he passed the business onto his heirs.
After 250 years Spode is still designed in Britain and has now become synonymous with British ceramics.
 
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