Embossments were used extensively on china dessert wares and tea wares in the early 19th century but not so much on dinnerwares. Spode introduced several different embossed wares including Wicker Weave Embossed, Dolphin Embossed, Swag Embossed, Dresden Embossed, Spear Leaf Embossed, Butterfly Embossed and Wreath Embossed. By far the most successful was the Flower Embossed Shape which was introduced in about 1813.

The Spode pattern books first record Flower Embossed shape with pattern number 1909 on a Bute shape teacup. The London shape teacup, introduced in 1821, was first used with Flower Embossment on pattern number 3192. Antique coffee pots were of Vase shape but in the twentieth century the more stern Collamore tankard style coffee pot was used until a newer style, in the 1960s, was modelled to reflect the shape of the teapot.

Flower Embossed ware was produced in both earthenware and bone china but mostly on the latter. It was discontinued in the early 1970s.

A huge number of patterns were produced on the Flower Embossed shape. Some plain with the embossments picked out in colours; some plain with flower sprays painted between the undecorated embossments; and some with decorated centres and the flower embossments standing out in white against a pale coloured ground. One of the most popular of these was the beautiful Lavender Blue border.

The Registered number 526381 registered the design with the British Patent Office on 19th June 1908, although this was obviously much later than the original record of the shape and probably coincided with a reintroduction. In the same year registered number 531630 registered a design on Flower Embossed shape as Spode's 3127. This was on 16th October 1908. In the early 1900s the company often used famous early Spode pattern numbers to describe their current product which was influenced by the early designs. The original pattern number 3127 was first recorded in 1821.

Some of the most popular patterns from the 1960s onwards were:

Maritime Rose: pattern number R4118 first recorded in 1910

Old Colony Rose: pattern number Y6447 first recorded in 1941

Lady Blessington: pattern number Y7195 first recorded in 1950 with a border groundlaid in London Stone

Lady Blessington: pattern number Y7228 first recorded in 1951 with a border groundlaid in Leather Green

Wellington: pattern number Y7193 first recorded in 1950

Rosewood: pattern number Y7264 first recorded in 1952 with a border groundlaid in London Stone

Rosewood: pattern number Y5850 first recorded in 1938 with a border groundlaid in Margaret Rose pink

Rosewood: pattern number Y5851 first recorded in 1938 with a border groundlaid in Marina green

Rosewood: pattern number Y7440 first recorded in 1954 with a border groundlaid in Rochelle pink-peach

Rosewood: pattern number Y7441 first recorded in 1954 with a border groundlaid in Primrose Yellow

Tittensor Flower Centres pattern number Y2855 first recorded in 1932 with a border groundlaid in London Stone

Tittensor Flower Centres pattern number Y6614 first recorded in 1942 with a border groundlaid in Celadon

Y7216 first recorded in 1951 plain white with the embossments printed in gold

Christine pattern number Y6802 first recorded in 1945