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What (who) is Wedgwood - definition

POTTERY FIRM
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  • Wedgwood & Byerley in [[St James's Square]]; the London showroom in 1809
  • ''[[Am I Not a Man and a Brother]]?'' medallion, c. 1786
  • A [[transfer printed]] [[creamware]] Wedgwood tea and coffee service. c. 1775, [[Victoria & Albert Museum]], in the "Liverpool Birds" pattern.  Fashionable but relatively cheap wares like these were the backbone of Wedgwood's early success.
  • Keith Murray]], c. 1935
  • Four [[creamware]] plates, transfer printed with stories from ''[[Aesop's Fables]]'', the other decoration hand-painted. 1770s.
  • Tripod [[pastille burner]] in dry stoneware, 1830–50
  • [[George Stubbs]], ''Reapers'', enamels on an earthenware plaque, 1795.
  • Jasper trial pieces, with numbers keyed to Wedgwood's Experiment Book, 1773–1776, Wedgwood Museum, [[Barlaston]].
  • Serving-plate from the [[Frog Service]] with [[Ditchley Park]], [[Oxfordshire]], c. 1774.  Unusually, this is [[creamware]] with the elaborate view hand-painted.
  • Wedgwood Portland Vase, black [[jasperware]], c. 1790, copying the Roman [[cameo glass]] original.
  • Teapot, 1805–1815, Rosso Antico ware, [[Egyptian Revival]] style
  • [[Thomas Carlyle]] earthenware memorial jug, 1881. The floral decoration is hand-painted on a printed outline.
  • sprigged]] [[relief]]s.
  • Wedgwood pieces, c. 1930, c. 1950, 1885
  • Wedgwood teawares in a Japanese department store, 2011

Wedgwood         
['w?d?w?d]
¦ noun
1. trademark ceramic ware made by the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) and his successors, especially a kind of powder-blue stoneware with white embossed cameos.
2. a powder-blue colour characteristic of this stoneware.
Wedgwood ware         
·- A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas         
HUMAN SETTLEMENT IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Wedgewood neighborhood; Wedgewood Neighborhood (Fort Worth, TX); Wedgewood, Fort Worth, Texas; Wedgwood, Fort Worth
Wedgwood is a neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas (USA), located on the southwest part of the city. It is bounded by Granbury Rd on the northwest, Altamesa Blvd on the south, McCart Ave & Westcreek Dr on the east, and Interstate 20 on the north.

Wikipedia

Wedgwood

Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery, "a firm that has done more to spread the knowledge and enhance the reputation of British ceramic art than any other manufacturer", exporting across Europe as far as Russia, and to the Americas. It was especially successful at producing fine earthenware and stoneware that were accepted as equivalent in quality to porcelain (which Wedgwood only made later) but were considerably cheaper.

Wedgwood is especially associated with the "dry-bodied" (unglazed) stoneware Jasperware in contrasting colours, and in particular that in "Wedgwood blue" and white, always much the most popular colours, though there are several others. Jasperware has been made continuously by the firm since 1775, and also much imitated. In the 18th century, however, it was table china in the refined earthenware creamware that represented most of the sales and profits.

In the later 19th century, it returned to being a leader in design and technical innovation, as well as continuing to make many of the older styles. Despite increasing local competition in its export markets, the business continued to flourish in the 19th and early 20th centuries, remaining in the hands of the Wedgwood family, but after World War II it began to contract, along with the rest of the English pottery industry.

After buying a number of other Staffordshire ceramics companies, in 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood plc, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. In 1995 Wedgwood was granted a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II, and the business was featured in a BBC Four series entitled Handmade by Royal Appointment alongside other Warrant holders Steinway, John Lobb Shoes and House of Benney. After a 2009 purchase by KPS Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, the group became known as WWRD Holdings Limited, an initialism for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton". This was acquired in July 2015 by Fiskars, a Finnish consumer goods company.

Examples of use of Wedgwood
1. It is Wedgwood crockery, it is Christofle silver, it‘s Wedgwood glassware, it‘s Marco Pierre White.
2. "It is a murky area," says Ruth Wedgwood, an international law professor at Johns Hopkins University.
3. By Ruth Wedgwood To Our Readers The Moscow Times welcomes letters to the editor.
4. Third article in a series commemorating the United Nations‘ 60th anniversary Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B.
5. Ruth Wedgwood is a professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University.