Ceramics and Pottery Industry

Josiah Wedgwood: Industrialist Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in 1730 into a family of long… read more »

Rococo double candelabrum in form of a flowering tree crowned with a nesting bird. The applied flowers… read more »

Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858

Image: Old China Works, Derby, showing kilns for firing the porcelain. John Keys, Sketches of Old Derby… read more »

The group with a shepherd playing his pipe to a sleeping shepherdess is a good example of… read more »

Image: Wedgwood’s factory at Etruria in Staffordshire. The Useful Arts and Manufacturers of Great Britain of Great Britain Vol.… read more »

Published in 1802, this Directory is one of the first written accounts of the pottery towns, Tunstall,… read more »