Maker: Spode  Pattern: Tower

This is a most unusual item. The round pot is fixed to the stand and the cover has four holes pierced in it. We are grateful to Robert Copeland and Pam Woolliscroft of the Spode Museum Trust, who identified it as a Butter Pot and found reference to such pots in an early catalogue dated about 1910. We also found a similar item in a different pattern in an Army and Navy Stores Catalogue of 1937-38, where it was described as a meat pot.
The cover has had a "ding" on the rim, which has caused a V shaped hairline, one arm of which has run a little way in from the rim. There is a tiny chip on the inner rim, which fits inside the pot. The glaze is finely crazed, but otherwise it is in excellent condition.
Blue printed oval backstamp and impressed Copeland Spode Impl, Rd No 90067.
Saucer 4.75 ins 12 cm diameter, cover 3 ins 8 cm diameter.

Dimensions: Pot 7.5 cm diameter 4 cm deep / Pot 3 ins diameter 1.625 ins deep