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Each with deep waisted cover, inset with a gilt ring finial on tall tripod stem molded with three leaf tips, the shield-shape body flanked by bracket handles, burnished gold bands with pink roses at the rim, a similar medallion reserved front and back on the white ground gilt with stars and polka dots, the cover rims and side of the socle foot with stylized trailing vine, the socle itself reserved and gilt with leaf tips, on further square gold base
1534 in. (40 cm.) and 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
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See Leonard Whiter, Spode, A History of the Family, Factory and Wares from 1733-1833, London, 1970, p. 95 for ice-pail designs from the Spode factory's 1820 shape book. The example illustrated on the second row, second from the right, has the same distinctive finial as that found on the present ice pails. See also color plate V for an écuelle, cover and stand painted with fruit on a burnished gold ground, an example of Spode gilding and painting at its best.

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