Josiah Wedgwood I's (1730 – 95) Portland Vase is one of the most well-known Wedgwood ceramic designs. It demonstrates a level of craftsmanship and detail which makes it an excellent example of British ...

The First Day's Vase had been on loan to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery for 35 years before it was sold at auction A rare piece of Wedgwood pottery will return to Stoke-on-Trent after an ...

Neil Burton has worked as a Turner at Wedgwood for 44 years. Here he is applying adhesive to attach the neck of the vase to the base. Neil must work quickly as he only has a 10 second window to ...

That a British delegation had the temerity to present the Chinese emperor with six Wedgwood vases sixty years later owed less to British overconfidence than it did to the revolution in quality ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore why eighteenth century collectors became so enthusiastic about ancient vases, especially Greek ones, and how Josiah Wedgwood reimagined these for consumers.

23.81 x 14.29 x 14.29 cm. (9.4 x 5.6 x 5.6 in.) ...

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Aristocratic clients lapped it up: you shall "exceed the ancients", gushed one elderly lord, ordering three vases. And Wedgwood kept experimenting. Traditionally, clay was fired and then painted ...

Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood I, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782, England. Museum no. WE.7851-2014. © Fiskars Josiah Wedgwood I declared in 1769 that his aim was to ...

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