Wedgwood Jasper Ware

Wedgwood Jasper Ware

Author: Michael Herman

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764319266

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For novice and moderately advanced collectors, mainly pieces produced from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Includes Wedgwood Jasper history, colors, marks and prices, and hundreds of illustrations.


Wedgwood Jasperware

Wedgwood Jasperware

Author: Gaye Blake-Roberts

Publisher: Shire Publications

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780747810544

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'Jasper' refers to the highly distinctive blue-and-white wares that have been produced by the Wedgwood company for more than two centuries. It was arguably Josiah Wedgwood's most important contribution to ceramic art and was a direct result of several thousand experiments over many years. It has been by far the most widely collected of all Wedgwood products, and this book will explore the history and stories behind this unique ware.


Wedgwood Jasper

Wedgwood Jasper

Author: Robin Reilly

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1994-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780500016244

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Jasper has been by far the most avidly collected of all Wedgwood wares from the 18th century until the present day. It is still the style by which the firm is throughout the world and it continues to be produced in the 1990S. A dense white stoneware, jasper was the outstanding invention of Josiah Wedgwood's career as a potter - and the most significant innovation in ceramics since the discovery of porcelain by the Chinese some 900 years earlier.


Melancholy Wedgwood

Melancholy Wedgwood

Author: Iris Moon

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0262546345

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An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity. Melancholy Wedgwood traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eighteenth-century England’s tenuous relationship to our own lives and times, amid the ruins of late-capitalist modernity. Through intimate vignettes and essays, and in writing at turns funny, sharp, and pensive, Iris Moon chips away at the mythic image of Wedgwood as singular genius, business titan, and benevolent abolitionist, revealing an amorphous, fragile, and perhaps even shattered life. In the process the book goes so far as to dismantle certain entrenched social and economic assumptions, not least that the foundational myths of capitalism might not be quite so rosy after all, and instead induce a feeling that could only be characterized as blue.


Wedgwood

Wedgwood

Author: Geoffrey Wills

Publisher: Bounty Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780753700938

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Josiah Wedgewood rose from humble Staffordshire potter to national figure. Today, Wedgwood is a household name, world-famous for its pottery and china. This title traces the history of Wedgwood from the early days at Burslem.


The Radical Potter

The Radical Potter

Author: Tristram Hunt

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1250128358

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From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion—depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”—became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. As historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, creative figure whose personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story of a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.


Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood

Author: Anthony Burton

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2019-11-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1526755033

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The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When he started work, the local ware was either fairly rustic, or made to look a little more sophisticated by the addition of heavy glazes. He worked to produce a lighter colored body and to use designs made to appeal to aristocratic tastes, convinced that where they led the rapidly growing middle class would follow. The result was cream ware which, when a whole service was ordered by the royal family, was soon christened queens ware. But Wedgwood was a distinctive character for more reasons than his artistry. As a businessman, he adopted an early form of mass production, and is believed to be the inventor of many modern marketing techniques such as money-back guarantees and illustrated catalogs. He was also a passionate early abolitionist who used his company to promote the anti-slavery cause, and he pursued the study of chemistry in order to understand the science behind the potter’s art, eventually inventing a kiln thermometer. This fascinating biography brings to life a remarkable eighteenth-century figure.


Wedgwood Jasper

Wedgwood Jasper

Author: Michael Herman

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764325748

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Of all the many types of ceramics produced by the Wedgwood Company in the last two and a half centuries, Jasper is the one most immediately recognizable. This second book on this fascinating subject by the author traces, through over 750 photographs, Jaspers long history and almost infinite variety. It covers the entire range of Wedgwood Jasper pieces from items of museum quality to those that can be found in modest collections.