Spode Trade Winds Ship Windsor Castle Jumbo Coffee Mug National Maritime Museum

Description: Spode Trade Winds Ship Windsor Castle Jumbo Coffee Mug National Maritime Museum This Spode coffee mug features a classic clipper ship design with a transferware pattern called Trade Winds Black featuring the Ship Windsor Castle from Great Britain's National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. The extra-large mug holds 20 ounces of your favorite Venti beverage measuring 4 inches tall by 4.75 inches in diameter. The mug is an original piece from the very elegant Trade Winds pattern which, like Spode's famous Christmas Tree pattern, was designed for the American market. It features a ship design which makes it a perfect fit for anyone who loves ships and nautical-themed items. The mug is ideal for hot beverages and can be used on all occasions. The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Since the earliest times Greenwich has had associations with the sea and navigation. It was a landing place for the Romans, Henry VIII lived there, the British Navy has roots on the waterfront, and Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in 1675 for "finding the longitude of places". The home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian since 1884, Greenwich has long been a center for astronomical study, while navigators across the world have set their clocks according to its time of day. The museum has the most important holdings in the world on the history of Britain at sea, comprising more than two million items, including maritime art, cartography, manuscripts including official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, and instruments for time-keeping and astronomy at the Observatory. Its holdings including paintings relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook. Trade Winds was introduced by Spode in about 1959/60 and came from an idea by George Thompson, President of Copeland & Thompson in New York. Copeland & Thompson were the main agents for Spode in the USA and vital to the success of Spode in the UK. George Thompson had researched the US market and decided there was a demand from customers for a historical pattern of this type. The idea was accepted by the Spode company and the project to develop a design was led by Robert Copeland, who was Sales Director at the time. He was later to become well-known and revered as Historical Consultant to Spode and, still later, to the Spode Museum. In 1958/9 the team, including Harold Holdway, Design Director, started detailed research for the project. They studied historical sailing ships from specialist books and manuscripts as well as visiting the National Maritime Museum in order to get details exact. The ships chosen for the design were mostly American, with some British. The names of the ships were also to be added to the back or underside of the finished pieces. Spode artist Dennis Emery was allocated the job of drawing out the design. The design and development of Trade Winds took place at a period when great detail was put into the background of a new Spode design . This attention to detail is probably one of the reasons why Spode patterns of this type became so successful. Once the designs were ready and approved engravings had to be designed and hand engraved by the Spode engravers for production by printing. This included the pattern name and details of the ships' names which would be part of the backstamps. You can see just how much thought and work went into the development of a design from concept to finished product.

Price: 84.99 USD

Location: Pleasanton, California

End Time: 2024-11-21T02:34:13.000Z

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