The oldest ceramics known in the Americas — made from 5,000 to 6,000 years ago — are found in the Andean region, along the Pacific coast of Ecuador at Valdivia and Puerto Hormiga, and in the San Jacinto Valley of Colombia; objects from 3,800 to 4,000 years old have been discovered in Peru.
Njegova mat površina "jasperware" v dveh barvah je bila zelo primerna za neoklasicizem konca stoletja, ki je posnemal učinke starorimskih rezljanih gem in kamej kot je "Gemma Augustea", ali steklena kameja na "Portland vazi", od katerih je Wedgwood izdeloval kopije.