Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

 
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Location and period of operation:

 (See sources)

On the 5th January 2009 Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd went into administration and March in KPS Capital agreed to buy the company (as part of Waterford Wedgwood) to ensure the continuance of the Wedgwood name. [see more]

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Biography on Josiah Wedgwood
Wedgwood factories
Identifying Wedgwood ware
Wedgwood Ware
The Wedgwood Group

 

 

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black & white transferware bown  The pattern is a ‘made up’ romantic view with animals on a lake shore with trees and a boat with sails, surrounding this are vine leaves and grapes. The origins of this pattern is uncertain but it is typical of romantic scenes used in transferware printing.

Wedgwood the name WEDGWOOD is slightly curved and this is indicative of an early mark. Geoffrey Godden’s book on marks refers to this mark (No. 4074) as "Impressed marks… or in slightly curved as in no. 4074. c. 1759-c.69"

 

photos courtesy: Judy Crisp

 

 

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Wedgwood majolica jug in the ocean pattern

this design was copied by Hawley & Co 
the copies have crude glazing and do not have the WEDGWOOD mark on the base 

 

 

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Wedgwood
Established 1760 by Josiah Wedgwood F.R.S.
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent

The Pottery Gazette - March 1913 

 

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Selected by the Committee for the Staffordshire Potteries 
to exhibit at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855

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'walk' around Burslem - origin of Wedgwood

'walk' around Etruria

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