Editing Spode (section)

==Spode "Stone-China"==
[[File:Entrance to Spode Pottery Works, Stoke - geograph.org.uk - 391938.jpg|thumb|left|Entrance to Spode Pottery Works, Stoke]]

After some early trials Spode perfected a [[stoneware]] that came closer to porcelain than any previously, and introduced his "Stone-China" in 1813. It was light in body, greyish-white and gritty where it was not glazed and approached translucence in the early wares. Spode pattern books, which record about 75,000 patterns, survive from about 1800.

In Spode's similar "Felspar porcelain", introduced on the market in 1821, [[felspar]] was an ingredient, substituted for the [[Cornish stone]] in his standard [[bone china]] body, giving rise to his slightly misleading name "Felspar porcelain",<ref>"Spode Felspar Porcelain" is often stamped in underglaze on the bottoms of wares, both in simple typography and in copperplate lettering surrounded by a wreath of thistles and roses. ([[William Chaffers]], ''The Hand Book of Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain'')</ref> to what is in fact an extremely refined stoneware comparable to the rival "Mason's ironstone", produced by Josiah II's nephew, Charles James Mason, and patented in 1813<ref>Jeffrey B. Snyder, ''Romantic staffordshire Ceramics'' (Atglen, Pennsylvania) 1997:8.</ref> Spode's "Felspar porcelain" continued into the Copeland & Garrett phase of the company (1833–1847).<ref>Robert Copeland, ''Spode'' 1998:</ref> Armorial services were provided for the [[Honourable East India Company]], 1823, and the [[Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths]], ''c''1824.<ref>Examples of both services illustrated in Copeland1998:35 figs 59, 60.</ref> Some of the ware employed underglaze blue and iron red with touches of gilding in imitation of "[[Imari porcelain]]" that had been introduced on Spode's bone china in the first decade of the century:<ref>Spodes's pattern 967, the most popular imitation of "Imari" wares, was recorded in 1807. (Copeland :36 fig. 62.</ref> the most familiar "Tobacco-leaf pattern" (2061) continued to be made by Spode's successors, [[William Taylor Copeland]], and then "W.T. Copeland & Sons, late Spode".