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In May the same year, Josiah Wedgwood presented a copy to the British Museum, stating that it was ‘the finest and most perfect I have made’, the museum accepted despite their general policy then of not accepting objects of contemporary manufacture. That presentation vase still remains in the British Museum’s collection today. ","physicalDescription":"Large vase with foot and two small handles with a cylindrical pedestal base, body of the vase is made of white Jasper clay, which has received a mid-blue 'dip', with white Jasper relief figures, handles are in the form of two snakes competing for an egg above the mask of Medusa, cover is made from white jasper with a blue dip, with a figure of Pegasus riding a cloud in white jasper. 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