"4. White semi-porcelain or fine stoneware. This ware was composed of one of Wedgwood’s improved bodies.
"5. Variegated ware is of two kinds, one a cream-coloured body, marbled, mottled, or spangled with divers colours upon the surface and under the glaze; the other an improved kind of agate ware, in which the bands, twists, and strips constituted the entire substance of the vessel.
“6. Jasper ware. The body of this ware was the material in which the chief triumphs of Wedgwood were wrought. Outwardly it resembled the finest of his white terra-cotta and semi-porcelain bodies, but in chemical and physical properties it differed notably from them. There are seven colours in the Jasper body besides the white Jasper, but the solid Jasper is of a blue tint. The seven colours are:— blue of various tints, lilac, pink, sage-green, olive-green, yellow, and black.”
Fig. 76.—Lamp, Black Egyptian Ware.
Plaques, tablets, large portraits, and other medallions, cameos, intaglios, vases, statuettes, pedestals, flower-pots, &c., are objects and vessels that were made in Jasper ware.
Fig. 77.—Pedestal in Green and White Jasper, Wedgwood Ware. (S.K.M.)
Flaxman collaborated with Wedgwood in making many designs for his work. The beautiful pedestal shown at Fig. 77 is from a design by Flaxman, and is made in green and white Jasper.
Other names of artists who designed or modelled for Wedgwood are Hackwood, Stubbs, Bacon, Webber, Devere, Angelini, Dalmazzoni, &c. An influence on some of his work was due to his studying and copying the celebrated Portland Vase, which was lent to him for this purpose for more than three years by the Duke of Portland.