Vintage Wedgwood Pale Blue Jasperware Cherub Trinket Box – Dancing Putti Procession, Oval Lidded Dresser Jar, Neoclassical, England 1970s

A small oval lidded trinket box from Wedgwood — pale blue jasper stoneware finished with white sprigged-on relief in the firm's classical Dancing Hours / Putti manner. The lid carries a central medallion of cherubs at play in a garland of flowers, framed in a circling band of oak leaves and acorns. The body wraps continuously in a frieze of dancing putti, each tiny figure playing a different instrument or holding a different element — the procession design that Lady Templetown and John Flaxman originally drew for Wedgwood in the 1780s and which the firm has reproduced from those same sprig dies through to today.

Wedgwood invented jasperware in 1774, and solid jasper — colour right through the clay body — remains the firm's most prized version of it. The pale blue / white-sprig combination is the recognisable Wedgwood "wedding blue" look, the colour Wedgwood is best known for to non-collectors and most chased by collectors as the entry to the line. The interior of this box is glazed (Wedgwood's standard for twentieth-century commercial trinket boxes, to keep jewellery and small objects from picking up jasper dust).

A small oval cherub trinket box sits naturally on a vanity, a dressing table, or a bedside — a place for rings, earrings, small mementoes, or a single antique brooch. The shape and the putti decoration both read as a wedding / bridal-shower piece, and the box pairs cleanly with the small Etruscan jug and royal portrait plate from the same pale-blue jasperware family already in this shop.

• Type: Oval Lidded Trinket Box / Dresser Jar
• Maker: Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent, England
• Era: Circa 1960s–1990s
• Style: Neoclassical Dancing Hours / Putti Procession sprigs (after Lady Templetown / John Flaxman c.1780s)
• Material: Pale blue solid jasper stoneware (matte exterior, glazed interior) with white jasper sprigs
• Size: ~4" / 10 cm long × 3.5" / 9 cm wide × 2" / 5 cm tall
• Decoration: Lid — central cherub medallion in floral garland with oak-leaf-and-acorn border; body — continuous putti procession frieze
• Markings: Impressed WEDGWOOD / MADE IN ENGLAND on underside

Condition
Excellent vintage condition. Pale blue jasper colour even; white sprigged cherubs, garland, and oak border crisp and well-defined on lid and body; impressed mark legible. Lid sits cleanly on box. No chips, cracks, hairlines, or repairs. Please review all photos as part of the condition record.

Ships carefully packed from Canada. Combined shipping available.
Questions welcome — happy to provide additional photos.

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