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texture and glaze and wax well designed. There were salt glaze^ r.dware, biscuit, cauliflower and cabbage ware, black or jetware, known as Egyptian black, and agate.
Wfoat js most often thought of .jnj^hection with Wedgwood is t«* blue and white jasper. People of tin thnk that if a piece is blue ana White, it m Wedgwood; and if ic» Wedgwook ware, it’s neces'sari'll blue and \white. But the bgeiwone of Wedgwood’s business was always the cream-colored earthenware, or Queensware. It received this name because Queen Charlotte commissioned Wedg* wood to make a candle set for her and was so delighted with it tihaC she appointed him potter to Her Majesty. This was in 1745. From then on it was called Queensware.
Josiah Wedgwood continued his experiments and was eventually satisfied with a jasper body., Jasper is a white body of porcelain texture which can be stained with oxides to produce a variety of colors—drab, . chocolate* peach green, sage green, a pale blue, and many others. -
Something else that. Wedgwood made was a type of ware, called
^eane, a dr^.body with no^laze. Among other forms it was made in game-pie dishes—giving an effect of pie crust in times of flour shortage, flfeere are some' superb examples of engine burning in pieces made of cane ware, dating from about 1705*
Another type of ware represents a development of some of the early redware. Josiah took that type and improved it, pro
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