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A Georgian design in the prettiest lavender. Spode's Woodman scene, first engraved around 1816: a young woodman with his axe and bundle of faggots stopping to speak with a mother and child resting beneath a bare tree, a church spire in the distance, all inside a wide rope-twist band and a rich primrose and acanthus border on a scalloped rim. Printed from the original hand-engraved copper plate. | SPECS: Approx 10.5 in diameter, scalloped rim. Maker: Spode, Made in England, c.1990s-2000s. Pattern: Woodman, Georgian Series, The Spode Archive Collection, printed on the base. | HISTORY: The Spode Archive Collection reissued the factory's finest early 19th century engravings using the original copper plates from the Spode archive. Woodman is one of the best loved of the Georgian Series and is most often found in blue or red; the lavender colourway turns up far less often and mixes beautifully with mulberry and purple transferware. Made in England at the Stoke works before the pattern was di