Josiah Wedgwood

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Josiah Wedgwood

• By Faith ONeill, Holly Faulkner, Rachel Hill and
  Josie Morgan

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Menu

• Who was Josiah Wedgwood?
• What did Wedgwood make?
• Map of Key locations
• Interesting facts

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Who was Josiah Wedgwood?

• Josiah Wedgwood was a potter
• He was born in 1730
• He died in 1795
• He worked with many famous potters of the time
• He became famous for his many different types of
  pottery

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What types of pottery did he make?

• Josiah Wedgwood was famous for making
• Green Glaze
• Jasperware
• Slave Trade plaques
• Black Basaltes
• Cream Ware

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Green Glaze

• In 1759, Josiah Wedgwood and his partner,
• Thomas Whieldon invented green glaze.
• After Wedgwood and his partner had
• finished improving the green glaze, he
• finished his partnership with Whieldon and
• went into business with himself at the Ivy
• house in Burslem.

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An example of Green Glaze
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Jasperware Pottery
Jasperware Pottery has a fine-grained and
virtuous body.
Jasperware Pottery became popular all over the
country, even with the Queen.
Jasperware Pottery often portrays people from old
myths and legends.
Jasperware pottery is plain white sculpture on a
pale blue background.
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How did he help to Abolish the slave trade ?
1787
The plaque reads... Am I not a man and a brother
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This plaque was made in 1787. It was designed to
make people aware of what was happening to the
slaves and to make them think hard and take
action to abolish it.
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Map of Key Places
Liverpool Wedgwood frequently visited Liverpool
to export his pottery Wedgwood met Thomas
Bentley, a merchant who became his partner
Burslem Wedgwood started working as a potter
Wedgwood went into business on his own at Ivy
House factory
Barlaston Wedgwood built his factory Etruria
Stoke-On-Trent Wedgwood was born Wedgwood
formed his first partnership, with John
Harrison Wedgwood formed a partnership with
Thomas Whieldon
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• Did you know?
• Childhood
• Josiah Wedgwood became a skilful potter at the
  age of nine
• Josiah Wedgwood became an apprentice to his
  brother at the age of fourteen
• Wedgwood got smallpox at the age of fourteen
  and had to have his leg amputated
• Working Life
• In 1754 Wedgwood formed a partnership with one
  of the leading potters of his time, Thomas
  Whieldon
• In 1754 Wedgwood started what he called his
  experiment book it became an invaluable source
  of pottery
• 950 pieces of Wedgwoods cream ware pottery
  were made for Empress Catherine the Great of
  Russia
• Queen Charlottes patronage of Wedgwoods
  cream-coloured earthen ware led to the well
  finished earthen ware called Queens ware
• Wedgwood built a factory called Etruria, which
  later became the first factory to install a
  steam-powered engine