Identifier: staffordshirepot00wedg (find matches)
Title: Staffordshire pottery and its history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement), 1872-1943
Subjects: Staffordshire pottery Potters Wedgwood ware
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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enough to be idle, retired from the firm, and conveyed their shares to the younger Josiah. Till 105 WEDGWOODS STAFFORDSHIRE Thomas Byerleys death in 1810, the firm wasknown as Wedgwood, Son and Byerley.* Josiah Wedgwood himself died on January 3,1795. He bequeathed to his second son Josiahhis share in the factory and an estate of 363 acresin Stoke and Hanley, and to his other children afortune of about £160,000.f Mr Burton sumsup the result of his work as follows: His in-fluence was so powerful, and his personality sodominant, that all other English potters workedon the principles he had laid down, and thus afresh impulse and a new direction was given tothe pottery of England and of the civilized world.He is the only potter of whom it may truly besaid that the whole subsequent course of potterymanufacture has been influenced by his individ-uality, skill and taste. J *Jewitt, op. cit.y p. 319, etc. tSee his Will, Jewitt, op. cit., pp. 413-9. J Burton, English Earthenware, p. 151. 106
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G W.BACON i CO l>» 127 STRAND, LONOON To face p. 107 CHAPTER VII. AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. WEDGWOODS financial success withhis Jasper and Black Etruscan ware, asuccess hitherto quite unique in theexperience of the Potteries, led every potter of any-capacity to attempt the same lines. They cannotbe blamed for trying to imitate what was demandedby the fashionable market. The whole progress ofthe industry had been based upon the copying ofsuccessful processes, and Wedgwood did notpatent his patterns or methods, even could hehave done so. All over the Potteries they followed in his steps,content to reap with little trouble the advantagesof his past labours—reproducing his patterns andavoiding all dangerous novelty. Invention diedand the wares, tamely and ignorantly copied byinartistic workmen, sank artistically throughout the next half century. The copyist, imitator or 107 WEDGWOODS STAFFORDSHIRE rival, who annoyed Wedgwood most in his life-time was Humphrey Palmer of H

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