Josiah Wedgwood
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730-1795) · Founders · Died at 64
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Something wrong?Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery.
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Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768-1771 by Joseph Pickford. It was restored as part of the 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival and is now part of a four-star hotel.
Vase on stand with inverted Neck, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons and Thomas Bentley, before 1780, black basalt. Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.
Teapot, Wedgwood 'caneware', c. 1780-1785. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri.
Wedgwood tea and coffee service, 1765, on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Wedgwood's creamware was hugely popular, as a cheaper equivalent of porcelain.
Wedgwood, 1774, creamware. Plate from the Frog Service for Catherine II of Russia, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Horse Frightened by a Lion jasperware by Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley, after George Stubbs, 1780
Portrait of WedgwoodAwards
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