Product Description
A refined antique Wedgwood Jasperware lidded urn in classic sage green, dating to circa 1898. This elegant piece features neoclassical white bas-relief scenes and foliate detailing, all finely contrasted against the soft matte green ground. The urn is raised on a decorative pedestal foot and crowned with a domed lid topped by a pointed finial.
A beautiful example of 19th-century Wedgwood artistry. Measures approximately 24cm tall.
If This Piece Could Talk:
If this urn could speak, it would whisper stories from parlours lit by gaslight and voices softened by etiquette. It once stood proudly on a mantel in an English drawing room, a symbol of cultured taste and quiet elegance. Perhaps it witnessed afternoon tea poured from silver pots, or heard the rustle of skirts as ladies debated poetry and politics beneath the hush of Victorian restraint. Crafted in 1898, its classical figures echo ideals of beauty and virtue—silent guardians of tradition, eternally in motion yet forever still. A vessel not just for ornament, but for memory.