Josiah Wedgwood Ceramics

For 200 years before he was born in the villages of north staffordshire potters had been using the local.

Josiah wedgwood ceramics. 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. Josiah wedgwood s achievement is intimately bound up with the history of the potteries. 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 frs 12 july 1730 3 january 1795 was an english potter entrepreneur and abolitionist he founded the wedgwood company.

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. English potter whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic art. 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.