Now 250, Wedgwood’s Jasperware still thrills

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At the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Staffordshire, the story of the ceramics brand is told through some 175,000 objects. Housed on the same site as the Wedgwood factory in Barlaston, the museum holds myriad cups and saucers, teapots and trinkets, oil paintings of founder Josiah Wedgwood and trays upon trays of his ceramic trials and errors. He made more than 5,000…