Rococo-inspired wares formed a very small part of early Wedgwood production, but the most distinctive of these were those naturalistically-moulded earthenware fruit and vegetable forms made around 1760. Other potters in Staffordshire also made similar wares at this time.The lower portions of the cauliflower wares received a decoration of a brilliant green glaze, considered by many to have been developed by Wedgwood himself around the time of his partnership with Thomas Whieldon, master potter at Fenton. Wedgwood’s early experiment books mention the development of coloured glazes, and William Greatbatch, also an associate of Whieldon and Wedgwood, is known to have supplied local potters with models and biscuit wares in these forms. Cauliflower ware as the name implies had the lower part modelled to resemble the leaves, and was covered with green glaze, the green colour was derived from copper oxide, which was purchased from the specialist firm of Robinson and Rhodes in Leeds. Wedgwood’s formula for ‘A Green Glaze to be laid on common white biscuit ware’ is number 7 in his Experiment Book entered on 23rd March 1759. The upper part of the ware which emulated the cauliflower head was either cream or yellow, in this case cream. The main body of the teapot is Queen's ware.