Author: Robert Lockhart HobsonPublisher:
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Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Chinese Porcelain & Wedgwood Pottery
Author: Robert Lockhart HobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The Old China Book
Author: N. Hudson MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery
Author: R. L. HobsonThe Old China Book
Author: N. Hudson MoorePublisher:
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Category : Porcelain, English
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery
Author: Chinese Porcelain & Wedgwood Pottery with Other Works of Ceramic Art; a Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Formed by the First Viscount Leverhulme
Author: Robert Lockhart HobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Chats on English China
Author: Arthur HaydenPublisher:
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Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Old China Book; Including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Lustre and Other English Pottery and Porcelain
Author: N. Hudson MoorePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230374086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. WEDGWOOD AND HIS WARES. The ceramic art of various countries--France, Italy, Germany, China, and Spain--is classed in different epochs or periods. In each epoch there were usually one or two factories or potters whose work was so admirable that it was difficult to award the palm between them. In England it is different; there is one name which expresses the greatest heights which English pottery has ever reached, and that is, Wedgwood. In no branch of art, learning or manufacture is there a royal road. All paths which lead to the heights of success are stony for some part of the way, and it is only by the exercise of patience, energy and perseverance that the goal is reached. It was by the combination of these three qualities that Josiah Wedgwood accomplished the amount and quality of the work he did, and built for himself, day by day, an enduring fame. He came from a family whose members had long been potters at Burslem, and was the youngest of a family of thirteen children. He was born in August, 1730. His early education was fragmentary, no doubt, as there was but one school in Burslem and that a poor one, and two years after the death of his father, when Josiah was but eleven years old, he was put to work in the pot works, as a thrower. The will of his father provided that when Josiah came of age he should have twenty pounds, not a very large capital with which to start in business, surely. But Josiah was to learn his trade, and that he did, being bound as apprentice to his brother, for whom he worked till he was sixteen years old. Then he contracted the smallpox, " the dregs of which disease settling in his leg," as Mr. Gladstone says, eventually necessitated its amputation. What would have proved to most men a terrible...
Vol.II
Author: Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Old China Book Including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Lustre, and Other English Pottery and Porcelain
Author: N. Hudson MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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