Jasperware vase
Josiah Wedgwood’s matt, coloured stoneware with white classical reliefs – Neoclassicism in clay.
Josiah Wedgwood experimented for years before he produced jasperware around 1775. It could be coloured right through and took fine reliefs.
The body suited the Neoclassical taste for antiquity. Wedgwood made vases, medallions and jewellery stones, and he copied the Portland Vase, a Roman glass vase, in jasperware.
Materials: Jasperware – an unglazed, coloured stoneware – with applied reliefs
Manufacture: The reliefs are pressed in small moulds and applied to the coloured body before firing, at Wedgwood’s Etruria works in Staffordshire.
A matt surface without glaze, in blue, green, lilac or black.
White reliefs of classical figures, like cameos.
The impressed mark WEDGWOOD; from 1860 also three letters giving the year.