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When in the early 19th century English pottery  and porcelain dinner services entirely superseded  those imported from China, similar serving  dishes were  required, but they were increasingly modelled on silver  ware, with wavy and heavily-moulded rims.\r\n\r\n<b>Collectors & Owners</b>\r\nThis dish is part of a service that was acquired by the  V&A from Miss H. M. Gulson, who had inherited it from  her uncle, Josiah Spode IV (1823-1893). Although the  Museum wished to accept only a token number of  pieces, because of the impossibility of displaying the  service in its entirety, eventually they agreed to take it  all, rather than destroy the integrity of a documented  service. Since 1902 it has largely remained in store,  although parts of the service have in recent years been  loaned to 10 Downing Street. The British Galleries now  provide a fitting permanent display of the many  different shapes used in the service.\r\n\r\nThe Spode family provenance suggests that the service  should represent the grandest and most opulent  porcelain made at the factory at Stoke-on-Trent,  Staffordshire, in the last years of Spode ownership.  The factory archives, now available to collectors, show  that the moulded shape called 'Royal Embossed' was  first made about 1831. This date exactly agrees with  the introduction of the painted pattern (No.4964). It  would seem therefore that Josiah Spode IV, only eight  years old in 1831, may have inherited the service later  from his own father, Josiah Spode III.","physicalDescription":"Dish: with scrolled wavy rim. In the middle is a bunch of flowers and fruit surrounded by a blue border with four shaped panels, also painted with flowers and fruit. 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M. Gulson","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Dish of porcelain, painted in colours and gold. Mark \"Spode Felspar Porcelain,\" surrounded by a wreath of the rose, thistle and shamrock, printed in mauve. English (Stoke-upon-Trent); first half of 19th century. 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Massed  displays were a familiar sight to the visiting public as in  the Wedgwood showroom illustrated on the left.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["566A-1902"],"accessionNumberNum":"566","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1902,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-29","recordCreationDate":"2019-04-29","availableToBook":false}}