Read the excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set
In the eighteenth century Josiah Wedgwood had made
some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics-in
jasper and basalt-in Britain, but this tea set shows
that by the 1840s, when Wedgwood produced it the
company was aiming at a much wider market. This is
quite clearly mid-range pottery simple earthenware of a
sort that many quite modest British households were
then able to afford But the owners of this particular set
must have had serious social aspirations, because all
three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy
hallmarked silver
Which descriptive details from the text best help the
reader visualize the specific earty Victorian tea set that
is the central topic of the text?
some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics
aiming at a much wider market
O quite clearly mid-range pottery
O decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver
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