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Materials:

earthenware plaque painted in impasto

Size Notes:

diameter

Description:

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Markings:

signed C F H, impressed COPELAND

Exhibited:

Leonard Whiter was Sales and Marketing Director of Spode from the early 1960s until 1974 and author of the standard work on Spode, published in 1970. C.F.Hürten studied at the Municipal School of Art in Cologne but moved to Paris in his late teens. An exceptional ceramic painter, Hürten joined Copeland in 1858, lured by a salary of £320 per year and his own studio. Copeland first his work at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. On this occasion a large vase was purchased by the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum, and this established Hürten's reputation as one of the greatest ceramic artists in Britain. He remained at Copeland until the late 1890s

Provenance:

Leonard Whiter Collection