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Item #48. Wedgwood pale blue jasperware demitasse cup and saucer set. The iconic Wedgwood blue that everyone recognizes on sight: pale blue jasper body with crisp white applied sprigged relief in the classical Greco-Roman vocabulary. The cup is wrapped with a continuous frieze showing a winged Pegasus and a classical figure (Bellerophon scene), with column, tree, and altar elements. The matching saucer carries complementary classical vignettes around the rim. SPECS Form: Demitasse cup + matching saucer (2-piece set) Body: Pale blue jasperware with white applied sprigged relief Pattern: Pegasus / Bellerophon classical scene (cup); classical vignettes (saucer) Backstamp: WEDGWOOD MADE IN ENGLAND (impressed) Maker: Wedgwood, England HISTORY: Pale blue jasperware is the single most iconic Wedgwood color, the one that even non-collectors recognize on sight as Wedgwood blue. The classical Pegasus scene draws from John Flaxman Jr's 1780s neoclassical moulds, the same artistic vocabulary tha