Single-owner collection ‘represents something of a return to form’ for the Spode market
The 'Indian Sporting' series is the most celebrated of all Spode blue and white transfer-prints. This multi-scene pattern (there are 17 different designs in total) is based on aquatints by Samuel Howitt from 'Oriental Field Sports, Wild Sports of the East' by Captain Thomas Williamson, published in 1807.
It was made from c.1815 until shortly after the onset of the Copeland & Garrett era in 1833. T…