A N Wilson gives a a very personal potted history of pottery master Josiah Wedgwood as part of BBC Two's Genius of Invention, says Frances Wilson. Wilson returned to his childhood home, a comfortable ...
If you're a collector of pottery, you know that no collection is complete without Jasperware—the quintessence of Josiah Wedgwood's career as an English potter. This unglazed stoneware, decorated with ...
THE RADICAL POTTER: JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN by Tristram Hunt (Allen Lane £25, 352pp) You could hear him coming, with his peg-leg. Josiah Wedgwood’s stumpy gait was the sound ...
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain. By Tristram Hunt. Metropolitan Books; 352 pages; $29.99. Allen Lane; £25 ONE HALF of the world, wrote Jane Austen, cannot ...
When Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a dinner service from Josiah Wedgwood in 1773, the industrialist’s pottery had already become a byword for sophistication around the world. Naturally, the ...
UK's largest luxury porcelain maker ' Wedgwood is a founder of' Josiah Wedgwood at the same time is a 18th-century potter, is a very good businessman, has been known for was a scientist. The Hustle, ...