Description:

A bone china dessert plate printed in blue on a sheet pattern background known as Parsley. The pattern is named Peacock and is painted underglaze with gild decoration added overglaze. This example is pattern number 4079.   Spode first produced this pattern on stoneware and it was taken from an original Chinese export pattern. According to Robert Copeland, the Peacock pattern "is probably the...

Description:

A bone china dessert plate printed in blue on a sheet pattern background known as Parsley. The pattern is named Peacock and is painted underglaze with gild decoration added overglaze. This example is pattern number 4079.   Spode first produced this pattern on stoneware and it was taken from an original Chinese export pattern. According to Robert Copeland, the Peacock pattern "is probably the best known Spode pattern on Stone china."