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Spode 19th Century Tureens

1835   Spode large soup tureen lid featuring TH.  Staffordshire green transferware.  Copeland and Garrett -- New Blanche Potteries.  11" long x 9" wide x 4¾" tall.  $150 from AestheticAntiques.com, Oct., '22.

As Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter at Aesthetic Antiques  wrote, "Ornate moulded handle, a plethora of oversized flowers, a famous fable, does it get any better than this?" 

1835   Spode tureen lid featuring OR.  About 4¼: x 5½" x 2¾".  $75 from AestheticAntiques.com, Nov., '20.

Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter at Aesthetic Antiques have a wide offering of fable materials.  This was the least expensive.  I am unsure of how we are to understand the side opposite the clear presentation of OR.  The main side itself is puzzling.  Is the oak bending over in the wind?  If so, the bird further in the foreground seems unaffected, and the tree seems to be holding its own. 

1850?  Spode tureen illustrating DW.  7.5" x 4.75" x 3.25".  "Aesop's Fables." Copeland and Garrett.  £75 from loch-leven through Ebay, May, '24.

This piece is unusual for offering illustrations of two fables.  The lid presents OR, balanced by a peaceful country scene, while the side of the tureen offers DW.  The cover repeats -- or resembles deeply -- the larger tureen cover above for OR.  In DW, I believe that the artist succeeds in giving the foreground dog a well-fed body and the further wolf a certain eagerness to find a better life.  I am surprised not to see some deeper marking around the dog's neck.

 

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