Josiah Wedgwood Ceramics

Wedgwood became a producer of fine ceramics and transformed pottery making into an industry that rivaled european porcelain in elegance of shape durability and lightness of weight.

Josiah wedgwood ceramics.

In 1765 shortly after opening his first london showroom he got a huge break when he was invited to take part in a contest to design a tea set for queen charlotte. Josiah wedgwood baptized july 12 1730 burslem now in stoke on trent staffordshire eng died jan. He developed improved pottery bodies by a long process of systematic experimentation and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of european pottery the chinese having achieved this long before. 3 1795 etruria staffordshire english pottery designer and manufacturer outstanding in his scientific approach to pottery making and known for his exhaustive researches into materials logical deployment of labour and sense of business organization.

English potter whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic art. For 200 years before he was born in the villages of north staffordshire potters had been using the local. Wedgwood was born in burslem staffordshire on july 12 1730 into a family with a long tradition as potters at the age of nine after the death of his father he worked in his family s pottery.