Wedgwood Jasperware "Cupids" Plates - Set of 2

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For your consideration…A lovely pair of Wedgwood jasperware plate extravagantly decorated with shells and swags and cupids.
A Right and … Read more For your consideration…A lovely pair of Wedgwood jasperware plate extravagantly decorated with shells and swags and cupids.
A Right and Left Hand Pair…very hard to find.
Handmade and so very romantic and chic...

These were quite expensive when new and remain very popular on the secondary market.

Measures 9" in diameter.

It is in excellent condition. Beautifully made of jasperware...What is Jasperware?

Named after the mineral jasper for marketing reasons, the exact Wedgwood formula remains confidential, but analyses indicate that barium sulphate is a key ingredient. Wedgwood had introduced a different type of stoneware called black basalt a decade earlier. He had been researching a white stoneware for some time, creating a body called "waxen white jasper" by 1773-74. This tended to fail in firing and was not as attractive as the final jasper ware, and little was sold.

Jasper ware's composition varies but according to one 19th-century analysis it was approximately: 57% barium sulphate, 29% ball clay, 10% flint, 4% barium carbonate. Barium sulphate ("cawk" or "heavy-spar") was a fluxing agent and obtainable as a by-product of lead mining in nearby Derbyshire. See less