FLAXMAN PLAQUE This is somewhat typical of the Jasperware for which Josiah Wedgewood was famous above all else. The slightly translucent stoneware was variously coloured - blue and green were succesful as were lilac and yellow later on.One of Flaxman's later works for Wedgewood ( he left for Rome that year), the scene was chosen to represent the Commercial Treaty of 1786. The original wax model, for which Flaxman was paid fifteen guineas in 1787, is now in the Burlaston Wedgewood museum.