Museum number
C368A
C368B
Object
Vase, Wedgwood, jasperware, about 1780
Description
Vase & Stopper.Light blue ground with figures sacrificing, trees, foliage & formal ornaments.Jasper
Materials
Pottery
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Ceramic
Lid
Vase Josiah Wedgwood (Factory of) Jasperware, about 1780 C368 The concept of ‘good taste’ first appeared in the eighteenth century. The rise of the middle classes meant that relatively ordinary people were able to purchase fashionable luxury goods for the first time. Early in the century the heavy baroque style remained fashionable. During the 1730s the new lighter rococo style appeared with its asymmetries and motifs based on nature. Neoclassicism, derived from Greece and Rome and inspired by archaeological discoveries, emerged in the 1750s partly as a reaction to the excesses of the rococo. It was to dominate art and design until the 1830s.

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