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Josiah Wedgwood - A New Biography (Hardcover)
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Josiah Wedgwood - A New Biography (Hardcover)
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Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived
in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in
traditional ways, but Josiah was to revolutionise the industry.
When he started work, the local ware was either rather rustic, or
made to look a little more sophisticated by the addition of heavy
glazes. He worked to produce a lighter coloured body and to use
designs made to appeal to aristocratic tastes, convinced that where
they led the rapidly growing middle class would follow. The result
was cream ware which, when a whole service was ordered by the royal
family, was soon christened queens ware. He needed to import new
materials - flint from East Anglia, light clays from the West
Country, so he became an ardent promoter of the Trent and Mersey
Canal, and built a new factory and family home on its banks, naming
the area Etruria In the new works, he abandoned the old systems
where individual craftsmen produced whole pieces for an early form
of mass production. From these works came the ceramics that are
still world famous, such as the distinctive jasper ware. He had
many outside interests and was one of the earliest supporters of
the ant-slavery movement. He studied science and was made a Fellow
of the Royal Society for his work on high temperature thermometers.
He was a loving family man and an enthusiastic correspondent, and
his many letters reveal a character that was attractive,
enthusiastic and always eager to learn, He died in 1795.
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