wedgwood in English

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ceramic ware made by the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95) and his successors. Wedgwood is most associated with the powder-blue stoneware pieces with white embossed cameos that first appeared in 1775.
The Museum (two doors down the road) already housed the splendidly wide-ranging collections of decorative art and antiquities given in 1867 by Joseph Mayer, from medieval ivories to Wedgwood .

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1. Wedgwood Creamware Basket and Stand

2. Wedgwood was a prominent slavery abolitionist.

3. At the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.1915.2008; Object Name commemorative plate; Classification Containers

4. Titles Buten Museum (Descriptive) Artist Wedgwood, England, est

5. Creamware is believed to have been perfected by Josiah Wedgwood as early as 1762

6. 11 Wedgwood experimented with barium sulphate (caulk), and from it produced jasper, in 17

7. The light blue colour of its exterior gave the hospital its nickname, the Wedgwood Castle.

8. Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, £95; oval platter, £

9. The neo-classical shapes and design of Anthemion Ruby are inspired by 18th century Wedgwood archive motifs, a celebration of the Wedgwood iconography, displaying opulent tones of ruby, embellished with rich gold detail for a thoroughly contemporary feel.

10. 28 Following John Talman's death his collection was sold and these two albums entered the collection of the ceramics industrialist Josiah Wedgwood.

11. A prominent abolitionist, Wedgwood is remembered too for his "Am I Not a Man And a Brother?" anti-slavery medallion.

12. Creamware (also called Queen's ware) refined lead-glazed earthenware developed by Josiah Wedgwood in 1762; became extremely popular from ca

13. Inspired by 18th century patterns from our archives, Anthemion Blue celebrates iconic Wedgwood motifs with neo-classical shapes and designs.

14. WEDGWOOD WELLESLEY College Creamware Dinner Plate Hetty HR Green Hall Embossed Blue on Cream Lovely England Made Gift Mother's Day {0057} ColonialHouseFinery

15. Concern for all things lowly was almost an article of faith for the Wedgwood cousins, who taught young Darwin to euthanize earthworms in brine before impaling them on a fishhook.

16. Pair of 18th Century English Creamware Ewers after an Ancient Roman Design Twelve Creamware Dinner Plates with Yellow Neoclassical Borders Made circa 1800 12 Wedgwood Creamware Dessert …

17. Although there were other potteries making Creamware, and other people also made crucial discoveries, Wedgwood got the acclaim for being the first to make a high quality pale cream earthenware.

18. The Buten Collection is an extensive collection of 8,000 ceramic pieces manufactured by the Wedgwood company in Burslem (now part of Stoke-on-Trent), England and donated to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008.

19. The term Amygdaloidal refers to the characteristic shape of the mineral deposits, stemming from the Latin word amygdala, meaning “almond.” Though not generally considered one of the more aesthetically pleasing rocks, basalt was the inspiration for a line of stoneware generated by the English potter Josiah Wedgwood.

20. Adlung, Grove and Wedgwood list it as synonymous with Bombarde, but Audsley says: The Bombardon has been confounded with the Bombarde, but they are properly two distinct stops tonally.The voice of the Bombardon should be between the voiced of the Bombarde and the Bassoon, while partaking of the character of both

21. Definition of Creamware : earthenware having a cream-colored glaze Examples of Creamware in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web This teapot is in the style of Thomas Whieldon, a successful English potter who partnered with Wedgwood in his factory between 1754 and 1759, chiefly to improve the lead glazes for Creamware pieces like this.

22. The modern Bombarde is a powerful chorus reed, usually found on the pedal at 8', 16', or 32' pitch (where it may be called Contra Bombarde), or on the manuals at 16', 8' or rarely (according to Wedgwood) 4' pitch.Its resonators are inverted conical metal or inverted pyramidal wood, and may be of harmonic (double) length in the treble