Gorgeous Pair Of Spode Creamware Dessert Serving Dishes Patt. 1783 c.1811

A delightful pair of Spode creamware rectangular dessert dishes decorated in the European style. Iron red "pluck and dust" transfer printed borders run around the rim and inner edge of the base, the former of a stylised flowering vine sandwiched between double tramlines, and the latter a hexagonal cell border. To each wall and the centre are hand painted five charming sprays of garden flowers. Very well executed, in fabulously rich and bright enamels, they are really quite joyful. Painted pattern number to the bases "1783" and a small decorator's asterisk mark just inside each foot rim. The don't have the full SPODE impressed mark, which was rarely applied to all pieces in a dessert service, but they do have the central impressed D mark which is often found on these services, both alone and commonly alongside the SPODE mark. c.1811. Reference: a fully marked example can be found here: https://antiquespode.co.uk/pattern-1783