Product Description

Josiah Wedgwood I was born into a family of potters and became the finest marketing man of his era. His pioneering spirit built up the most important English pottery business of the eighteenth century so that the name Wedgwood became a generic word for fine earthenware. He is justly famous for perfecting the Black Basalt and Jasper stoneware bodies and for producing many designs based on the antique artefacts excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum. This book also reviews and illustrates the firm's products through the nineteenth century, the designs of Lessore, Dresser, Crane and Barnard, the resurgence after 1904 when John Goodwin became art director, and the subsequent restablishment of the firm's essential greatness.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #498634 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

About the Author
Robert Copeland, sone of Gresham Copeland, partner in the family-owned Spode Factory in Stoke on Trent, joined the firm in 1943. He spent three years learning the processes of manufacture and developed a keen interest and respect for all aspects of the pottery industry. He is now historical consultant to Spode Ltd.