Wedgwood jasperware coffee cup and saucer from the Lady Lever Art Gallery collection But the collection doesn’t even have a decent coverage of everything Josiah made: the cream-coloured earthenware ...
A forerunner of the protest badge, Wedgwood's anti-slavery medallions were distributed for free at abolitionist society meetings to promote the cause. 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' ‘Am I Not a Man ...
The story of the medallion has been the focus of a V&A research project which saw the medallion reimagined for the 21st century, with a new medallion designed by young people from Stoke-on-Trent and ...
Lady Lever Art Gallery houses the finest collection of Wedgwood jasperware in the world. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) stands unrivalled as the greatest English potter. He not only invented and ...
Wedgwood experimented with barium sulphate (caulk), and from it produced jasper, in 1773. Jasperware, which is used for a whole host of ornaments, blends metallic oxides, often blue, with ...