This is an amazing, highly sought after and collected, collection of Spode Copeland English Earthenware. The pattern is known as Buttercup (with an older backstamp) and the pattern number is 2/7873. It was created in 1924 and continued to be made until 1992. The pieces included are 3-cups & saucers, tea set including tea pot & lid, creamer and sugar bowl with lid, 9" vegetable bowl, soup bowl and mini sugar bowl.

Spode is one of the greatest names of the Industrial Revolution. Josiah Spode I established his own company in 1776 in Church Street. Spode, like his neighbor and friend Josiah Wedgwood, concentrated on the production of ceramic wares of the finest quality in a variety of bodies.

He is particularly recognized as having produced the first printed “Willow” patterns 1784-90s. He focused his attention on the manufacture of porcelain, introducing in 1796 a new type of porcelain which he first called “Stoke China” but shortly afterwards renamed “Bone China”, because of the high proportion of calcined ox-bone in its formula. Spode’s Porcelain is recognized as the forerunner of all modern English Bone China.

In 1846, William Taylor Copeland acquired the company outright and he and four generations of his descendants controlled the company until 1966.-from the Spode Museum