Jasperware was developed by Josiah Wedgwood circa 1775. Jasperware is a colored, stoneware body, usually unglazed. It is a close grained body, sometimes highly polished and worked with a lapidary's tools. When the color is on the surface only, the piece is called "dip" jasper. When the color is throughout the body it is referred to as "solid" jasperware. Wedgwood, Adams and Dudson were three 19th-century, English potters that produced large quantities of this lovely light, medium and dark blue, green and tricolor ceramic.

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