Jasperware Vase

Fine examples of classic wedgwood Jasperware stoneware, first developed in the 1770s by Josiah Wedgwood. The pottery is now known primarily for the signature pale blue shade of metallic oxide stain. Decorative elements would have been produced separately using a white porcelain shaped in mould, then attached to the face of the vessels as sprigging — the delicacy and complexity of geometric pattern featuring classical subjects, medallion portraits, fruiting festoons and ram’s heads designed under John Flaxman Jr.