A Wedgwood Jasperware Blue Tobacco Jar

            This container featuring a classical bass relief of a girl dancing with a basket and bouquet of flowers, is a tobacco jar.  Made by Wedgwood in the 1920s, it is made in the classic Jasperware blue Wedgwood are perhaps most famous for.  This jar features three of the ten “flower girls” that featured on many pieces manufactured by the Etruria pottery.  You might think it rather odd that a very masculine object (smoking pipe tobacco being a predominantly male pastime in the 1920s) should feature such a feminine design, however it was not unusual for items used by men to feature beautiful women.

The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 3rd of December is “blue on white background”.  As soon as I read it, I immediately thought of my Wedgwood collection.  I have many pieces in Jasperware Blue and Portland Blue.  I even have a few pieces that feature both together.  However, on a white background, I felt the Jasperware Blue was a more striking choice.  I hope you think so too, and that this image makes you smile.

Wedgwood is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery.  Jasperware has been made continuously by the firm since 1775, and also much imitated. After buying a number of other Staffordshire ceramics companies, in 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood plc, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. After a 2009 purchase by KPS Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, the group became known as WWRD Holdings Limited, an initialism for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton". This was acquired in July 2015 by Fiskars, a Finnish consumer goods company.

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