Framed Black Wedgwood Mother & Child Plate For Sale

Framed Black Wedgwood  Mother & Child Plate
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Framed Black Wedgwood Mother & Child Plate:
$25.00

Beautifully Professionally Framed Wedgewood Basalt Commemorative Mother & Child plate from the 70\'s.
Plate is Black on Black relive Jasperware with elegant leaf design gold band in a simple classicalshadow box frame. Black is a rarer color in Jasperware and therefore very thought after by collectors.
Has been in a smoke free home for years. Acquired at an antique shop in Manhattan in the late 80\'s, was hung in a Dining Room and has been stored for a few years.
Basalt Jasperware History:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to search Jasperware vase and cover, Wedgwood, about 1790, in the classic colours of white on \"Wedgwood Blue\". The design incorporates sprig casts of the muses supplied by John Flaxman senior.[1] Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Jasperware, or jasper ware, is a type of pottery first developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. Usually described as stoneware,[2] it has an unglazed matte \"biscuit\" finish and is produced in a number of different colours, of which the most common and best known is a pale blue that has become known as Wedgwood Blue.[3] Relief decorations in contrasting colours (typically in white but also in other colours) are characteristic of jasperware, giving a cameo effect. The reliefs are produced in moulds and applied to the ware as sprigs.[4]

After several years of experiments, Wedgwood began to sell jasperware in the late 1770s, at first as small objects, but from the 1780s adding large vases. It was extremely popular, and after a few years many other potters devised their own versions. Wedgwood continued to make it into the 21st century. The decoration was initially in the fashionable Neoclassical style, which was often used in the following centuries, but it could be made to suit other styles. Wedgwood turned to leading artists outside the usual world of Staffordshire pottery for designs. High-quality portraits, mostly in profile, of leading personalities of the day were a popular type of object, matching the fashion for paper-cut silhouettes. The wares have been made into a great variety of decorative objects, but not typically as tableware or teaware. Three-dimensional figures are normally found only as part of a larger piece, and are typically in white. Teawares are usually glazed on the inside.[5]

Black jasper copy of the Portland Vase by Wedgwood.

In the original formulation the mixture of clay and other ingredients is tinted throughout by adding dye (often described as \"stained\"); later the formed but unfired body was merely covered with a dyed slip, so that only the body near the surface had the colour. These types are known as \"solid\" and \"dipped\" (or \"Jasper dip\") respectively. The undyed body was white when fired, sometimes with a yellowish tinge; cobalt was added to elements that were to stay white.[6]

  1. Invented in 1767, prior to the development of Wedgwood[link removed by ]’s iconic jasperware, the blue and white stoneware that has since become synonymous with the brand, black basalt was designed to mimic the inky-black luster of volcanic basalt stone.


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