Frog

Alternate Names: Pattern 3248

Dimensions:

• Diameter: 9.5 inches

Description:

This pattern was printed in blue and colored in underglaze with red on a slightly indented stone china dinner plate.  The name may have originated as a factory name.  If you look at the outside of the pattern you will see an unusual frog-like figure that seems to hang rather inexplicably from one of the leaves in the large vase.  Frog was a popular pattern for Spode, and it was produced in a number of different color combinations.  It was first made in 1821 and was still being produced in the Spode New Stone body in 1833, when Copeland & Garrett took over the Spode works. The Spode Museum Collection holds an example of this pattern on a plate with the caption in script on the back: "Used at the Coronation of His Majesty George the 4th - 19th July 1821."  The pattern number painted on the back is shown below.

Impressed 7b

http://spodeceramics.com/pottery/printed-designs/patterns/frog