Old Mark Red English Transferware Saucer Plate Spode Copeland Tower Bridge Birds harvest time scene Detergent & acid resisting colour

Detergent & acid resisting colour Pat Pend

Wildflowers bloom in the foreground

He was a director of the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company and of the North Staffordshire Railway

The scene depicts a stately English manor in the background and a couple in the foreground

This plate has the prettiest scene depicting men working the fields in front of their quaint country farmhouse at the end of a long stone lined road

Old Mark Red English Transferware Saucer Plate Spode Copeland Tower Bridge Birds harvest time scene Detergent & acid resisting colourHere is a vintage plate by Spode Copeland in the Tower pattern. It is the older version dating to the 1930's. The design features a bridge, birds and Tower in the background. It has a pretty floral, Gadroon shaped border. The Tower pattern is Iconic. It was first introduced by Spode in 1814 and was derived from a printed illustration in the book 'Views of Rome and its Vicinity' published around 1796 98. The Tower pattern depicts the Bridge of Salaro