“In the eighteenth century Josiah Wedgwood had made some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics—in jasper and basalt—in Britain.”
B
“A tea set [is] made up of three pieces of red-brown stoneware; a smallish teapot about 14 centimetres (6 inches) high with a short straight spout, a sugar bowl and a milk jug.”
C
“Tea sets became an essential part of the fashionable household, while less costly versions in pottery . . . spread through society.”