Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
A SPODE PORCELAIN CAFE-AU-LAIT GROUND 'WHITE BAIT' PART DESSERT SERVICE
Lot 245

A SPODE PORCELAIN CAFE-AU-LAIT GROUND 'WHITE BAIT' PART DESSERT SERVICE

CIRCA 1810, IRON-RED SPODE MARKS TO SOME, PATTERN NOS. 2101 AND 2102

Closed9 May 2018

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A SPODE PORCELAIN CAFE-AU-LAIT GROUND 'WHITE BAIT' PART DESSERT SERVICE
CIRCA 1810, IRON-RED SPODE MARKS TO SOME, PATTERN NOS. 2101 AND 2102
Each painted with birds in landscape, the cafe-au-lait borders painted with feathers and molded with flower sprays in resist, comprising: two ice coolers, covers and liners; two quatrefoil sauce-tureens, covers and stands; a footed two-handled compote; two oval dishes; three hexagonal 'envelope' molded dishes; six lozenge-shaped dishes; and eighteen hexagonal 'envelope' molded dessert plates
12 7/8 in. (32.6 cm.) wide, the compote

Acquired from Delmosne & Son, London, October 1955.

Specialist note

Known as the 'White Bait' service, this pattern was used at the Ship Inn in Greenwich in a series of dinners hosted by the sociable angler Sir Robert Preston, MP during the reign of George III. Over the course of the 19th century Preston's friendly 'White Bait' dinners wound up taking on a life of their own, eventually becoming exclusive dinners for Cabinet Ministers. See The Epicure: A Journal of Taste, vol. X, December 1902- November 1903, p. 357 and V. Wilkinson, Spode-Copeland-Spode, Suffolk, 2002, p. 176, pl. 113.