Wedgwood
It took four years of research for Josiah Wedgwood to come up with the formula for jasper ware and even then it didn’t always work. This blistered pot is one of his failed attempts to copy the Portland Vase, a famous piece of Roman glassware now in the British Museum. In the end, or course, he succeeded. His copies were so perfect that when the original was damaged, they could be used as a model for the restoration. The Wedgwood…