{"product_id":"vintage-wedgwood-lilac-jasperware-trinket-box-cherubs","title":"Vintage Wedgwood Lilac Jasperware Trinket Box with Cherubs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Wedgwood lilac jasperware trinket box with white cherub reliefs. Most people picture Wedgwood jasperware in Portland blue, and plenty of us have a little pot or two in that famous shade. Lilac is another story. It is one of the scarcer jasperware colours, and in years of rummaging we have never come across a piece out in the wild until this one, so we simply had to bring it home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a shaped oval trinket box with a gently scalloped outline, in soft matt lilac with crisp white reliefs. On the lid, two cherubs play in a little landscape, framed by a garland of tulip heads and tiny star flowers. Around the sides, a ring of dancing cherubs holds hands on one panel, with more figures, stiff leaf motifs and a flowerhead on the others. It is classic neoclassical Wedgwood, the decoration applied by hand to the unglazed stoneware just as the factory has done since the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes this one a real curiosity is a fine trail of white clay that wanders across the lid between the tulips, left behind during making. It is a factory flaw, and it means no other box is quite like it. There are also small black marks inside the lid and the base, which may have been added at the factory too. For a jasperware collector, a piece with its own small story like this is far more interesting than a perfect one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt measures 11cm long, 8cm wide and 5cm high. Alongside the white trail and the black marks, there is a tiny chip, which we have photographed so you can see everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it on a dressing table for rings and earrings, by the bed for hair grips, or on a desk for stamps and paper clips. It sits beautifully with other jasperware in any colour, with pale pink and grey, or among silver frames and old scent bottles, and would make a lovely present for anyone who loves Wedgwood or anything lilac.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Blue Loft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55796121567559,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/3921\/9015\/files\/wedgwood-lilac-jasperware-trinket-box-front.jpg?v=1794306064","url":"https:\/\/www.theblueloft.co.uk\/products\/vintage-wedgwood-lilac-jasperware-trinket-box-cherubs","provider":"The Blue Loft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}