Wedgwood – Rosso Antico

Rosso Antico is Wedgwood’s name for an unglazed dry-body red stoneware similar to Basalt and Caneware. Pieces other than tea sets, vases, plates, and jugs in this body are very rare, although from time to time it was used as decoration on other bodies such as Basalt and Caneware. Rosso Antico was made only sporadically because Josiah didn’t like it, as it reminded him of ‘redware’, an inexpensive body made by most of the Staffordshire potters. It was discontinued around 1940.