Urn with cover
ca. 1780–1800, with later base
Medium
Jasperware
Dimensions
Height (with cover): 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Etruria, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Frank K. Sturgis, 1932
Accession Number
32.95.10a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Josiah Wedgwood|Jan (or Jean) de Vaere (or Devaere) · 1730–1795
Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, the thirteenth child of a potter whose family had worked in the craft since the seventeenth century. Apprenticed to his elder brother Thomas following their father's death, he went on to a partnership with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton — the most respected potter in England at the time — which gave him command of all the principal techniq...