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Josiah Wedgwood: Quick Facts

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Facts

Baptized July 12, 1730
Died January 3, 1795 • England
Inventions pyrometer
Movement / Style Georgian style • Neoclassical art • Wedgwood ware

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Josiah Wedgwood.
Wedgwood stoneware
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Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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John Astbury
English potter
English slipware dish, “The Pelican in Her Piety,” by Thomas Toft, c. 1670; in the British Museum
Thomas Toft
English potter
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
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Ralph Wood, Jr.
English potter
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Aaron Wood
English potter
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Enoch Wood
English potter
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Bernard Leach: vase
Bernard Leach
British potter
Rie, Lucie: porcelain bowl
Dame Lucie Rie
British potter
Flaxman, John: The Fury of Athamas
John Flaxman
British sculptor
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John Cobb
English cabinetmaker
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Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
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Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
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William Morris
British artist and author
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist