As Spode’s iconic Blue Italian pattern turns 200, Annunciata Walton looks back at ... as well as collectible royal-occasion commemorative ware and a reissue of Blue Room, still in production today.

Spode ‘introduced the manufacture of Blue Printed into Stoke’; Shaw identified Spode’s ‘patterns for table services’, inspired by blue-and-white oriental porcelain, as ‘what is now called Old Willow’.

Artwork inspired by Spode's world famous Blue Italian pottery will adorn the ... interior project I worked on that used the Willow pattern, which is another famous Spode design.