Item No. 1353

A Fine and very decorative Crested Spode Porcelain Dessert Service, decorated in the full rich Imari palette, with cloud shaped panels of iron red flowers and scrolling gold tendrils on a deep blue ground alternating with stylised oriental gardens, including iron red fences, open peonies, framed with green drapery and lambrequin harebells, each piece decorated with a gilded crest of a large Griffin’s head set on a twisted mantle, comprising: a pair of twin butterfly handled circular sauce tureens, covers and stands together with four shell shaped dishes, four oval dishes, four lozenge shaped dishes a central raised comport and twenty four plates.

43 pieces in total.

Marks:  Script ‘Spode’ mark in iron red to underside of each piece.

Dimensions: 

Diameter of plates: 8 ins. (21cms.)
Diameter of shell dishes: 9 ½ ins. (24cms.)
Length of oval dishes: 10 ins. (25.5cms.)
Length of Lozenge dishes: 9 ½ ins. (24cms.)

Height of Comport: 4 ½ ins.
Length of Comport: 12 ins. (30.5cms.)
Height of sauce tureens: 6 ins. (15cms.)