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Typical "Wedgwood blue" jasperware plate with white sprigged reliefs. Wedgwood pieces (left to right): c. 1930, c. 1950, 1885 Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 [1] by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. [2]
The Wedgwood Museum collection is now branded the V&A Wedgwood Collection. [21] Displays at Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent, are now branded World of Wedgwood and described on its website as “Home to Stoke-on-Trent's most prestigious brand, Wedgwood”, and include the galleries of the V&A Wedgwood Collection. [22]
As early as 1774, Wedgwood began preserving samples of all the company's works for posterity, with the collection later put into the Wedgwood Museum. In 2009, the museum won a UK Art Fund Prize for Museums and Art Galleries (Museum of the Year) for its displays of Wedgwood pottery, skills, designs and artefacts. [73]
Jasperware vase and cover, Wedgwood, about 1790, in the classic colours of white on "Wedgwood Blue". The design incorporates sprig casts of the muses supplied by John Flaxman, Sr. [1] Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Jasperware, or jasper ware, is a type of pottery first developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s.
Neoclassical "Black Basalt" Ware vase by Wedgwood, c. 1815 AD, imitating "Etruscan" and Greek vase painting style. The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria. The factory ran for 180 years, as part of the wider Wedgwood business.
The museum has what appears to be the largest display in any museum of paintings by William Etty. Earlier works include those by Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Much of the Wedgwood collection was from the collection of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, bought in 1905.
In 1995 Wedgwood began to produce limited edition reproductions of the service. [36] The same year a monograph and full catalogue on the service was published in London. [37] Over 300 pieces from the Hermitage, plus many from other collections, were included in an exhibition in 1995 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [38]
The museum hosts educational programming to accompany its exhibits, including public lectures hosted by SOFA Chicago in 2012 and 2013, NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) in 2013 and 2016, [51] the Wedgwood Society of Washington, D.C., [52] the Haviland International Foundation, the Washtenaw County Historical Society ...
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