Spode's craftsmen have been designing and manufacturing some of the finest ceramics ever produced for over 200 years. It is England's oldest pottery company still on its original site in the heart of the Staffordshire Potteries

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.