Microwave Cooking for One by Marie T Smith

Shopping for Microwave Safe Dinnerware

Spode Microwave Safe Dinnerware and Fine China

In the early 1760's, a man who as a six-year old had watched his father buried in a pauper's grave, eventually opened his own small pottery. In the space of the next thirty years he was to make a unique contribution to ceramic art, and found a tradition of excellence that continues to this day.

In 1784, Josiah Spode perfected the process of blue underglaze printing on earthenware, which, as the history books record, was not only enough to ensure his reputation for posterity, but was the essential catalyst for the phenomenal development of English tableware that was to follow. He then went on to make the single most important discovery in the history of his industry — the formula for Fine Bone China — which was to make the name, Spode, famous throughout the world.

Josiah Spode's outstanding skills and creativity were to produce the two most important developments in English ceramics:

• The perfection of blue underglaze printing

• The development of the formula for bone china

Both remain in production at Spode today on the same factory site where they were developed at the end of the 18th Century.

In 1784 William Copeland went to work for Josiah's son, Josiah II, in London becoming an equal partner in 1805 and sole administrator in 1812. His son William Taylor Copeland became a partner in 1824 and sole owner in 1833. The firm remained in the Copeland family until 1966. The Spode brand name was used alongside the Copeland name throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, often styled 'Copeland late Spode'. In 1970, to commemorate the founder, the name was changed to Spode.

Current Spode Microwave Safe Dinnerware Patterns

Baking Days Black	Baking Days Dark Blue	Baking Days Green	Baking Days Red	Blue Italian
Christmas Tree	Christmas Tree Grove	Delamere Brown	Judaica	Woodland
Woodland American Wildlife	Woodland Horses	Woodland Hunting Dogs	Woodland Turkey

Current Spode Fine China Patterns

The following patterns are trimmed in gold or platinum. While beautiful for creating elegant table settings for formal dining, they are not safe for use in the microwave oven.

Christmas Rose

Stafford Flowers

Stafford White

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