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.
In May of 1938, Spode designer Harold Holdway was first asked to draw a Christmas tree design for a series of china. He had to be rather inventive as he had never seen one. In his first sketch, all the presents were suspended from the tree. The design was changed when managers explained to him that in America people put presents under the tree and just hung shiny ornaments on the branches.
Harold also had no idea what they put at the top of the tree, which is why the Spode Christmas Tree has a Santa.
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