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Spode pottery and porcelain
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Josiah Spode (1733–97) established a pottery at *Stoke-on-Trent during the 1760s and it was his son, also Josiah (1755–1827), who introduced *bone china. Early Spode pottery was noted for its excellent underglaze decorations in blue, the designs including the *willow pattern, but the porcelain was more often in the lavish French Empire style. In 1842 the firm, then owned by the Copeland family, became the first to introduce the so-called Parian ware – an unglazed porcelain, supposedly resembling marble from the Greek island of Paros, which was used for figures imitating statues. The company merged with *Wedgwood in 1964, but continues to manufacture under the name of Spode. A museum of its wares is attached to the factory.
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