Tea set, coffee set, 36cm platters x 2, 22cm tureens x 3, cream jugs x 3, lidded sugar bowl, 16cm additional saucers x 6, 20cm rimmed soup bowls x 6, gravy boat and 2 saucers, 25cm open vegetable bowls x 2, 23cm plates x 6, 28 dinner plates x 6, and a 24cm square handled platter.
Mostly factory seconds. We are open for valuations , entries and collections Monday - Friday 9. Subscribe to Newsletter. He was the youngest of 12 children born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in the heart of the English potteries and served his apprecticeship as a potter before setting up his own business. In , Wedgwood created a new form of earthenware, which impressed the then British Queen consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who gave official permission to call it "Queen's Ware. In , Wedgwood bought Etruria, a large Staffordshire estate, as both a home and factory site.
In , Josiah met Thomas Bentley, a Liverpool merchant who became a lifelong friend. The fired body of the vase was naturally white, but could be stained with metallic oxides — chromium oxide for sage green, cobalt oxide for blue, manganese oxide for lilac and the salt of antimony for yellow.
Relief decorations were applied in contrasting colours, usually white. These reliefs were produced in moulds and applied as sprigs, which were low relief shapes made separately and applied to it before firing. The design of these reliefs was inspired by classical art, popularised by recent excavations in Italy — Pompeii was rediscovered by a surveying engineer in As always, Wedgwood was quick to respond to his customer demands, providing clothing or fig leaves to satisfy sensibilities.
Hamilton, whose wife was the mistress of Nelson , was British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from to He became an important figure for British visitors in Italy, and housed an impressive collection of antiquities — including the Portland Vase, a Roman cameo glass vase.
The original Roman vase which Wedgwood spent four years trying to replicate. Attached to the factory was a village where Wedgwood's workmen and their families could live in decent surroundings. Wedgwood greatly improved the clumsy ordinary crockery of the day, introducing durable, simple and regular wares. His cream coloured earthenware was christened 'Queen's Ware' after Queen Charlotte, who appointed him queen's potter in Wedgwood experimented with barium sulphate caulk , and from it produced jasper, in Jasperware, which is used for a whole host of ornaments, blends metallic oxides, often blue, with separately moulded reliefs, generally white.
Some such reliefs were designed for Wedgwood by John Flaxman. Other wares included black basaltes, frequently enhanced by 'encaustic' colours like red, to imitate Greek vases. Josiah Wedgwood was born in August at Burslem, Staffordshire, into a family which had been engaged in the manufacture of pottery since the 17th century.
His father owned a factory called the Churchyard Pottery, and Josiah began working in this family enterprise as an apprentice in He left the factory in the early s and until was engaged with various partners in the manufacture of standard types of earthenware, including salt-glaze and stoneware products and objects in the popular agate and tortoiseshell glazes.
During these years he experimented with improving glazes in color, and he achieved a particularly refined green glaze. In Wedgwood set up his own factory at Ivy House in Burslem. The Ivy House pottery was so successful that in he moved his factory to larger quarters nearby; the new factory was first known as the Brick House Works and later as the Bell House. During this period Wedgwood created his first creamware, a palecolored earthenware frequently decorated with painted or enameled designs.
Wedgwood's creamware won the approval of Queen Charlotte and after about became known as "Queen's ware.
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