Josiah Spode
Deceased Person
1733 – 1797
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Who was Josiah Spode?
Josiah Spode was an English potter and the founder of the English Spode pottery works which became very famous for the quality of its wares. He is often credited with the establishment of blue underglaze transfer printing in Staffordshire in 1781–84, and with the definition and introduction in c. 1789–91 of the improved formula for bone china which thereafter remained the standard for all English wares of this kind.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1733
Staffordshire - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Died
- 1797
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on July 23, 2013
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