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 the reader visualize the specific early victorian tea set that is the central topic of the text? -some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics -aiming at a much wider market -quite clearly mid-range pottery -decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver