The medallion, created by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787, is expected to fetch between £1,200 and £1,800 at the fine art sale on Wednesday, January 15. The medallion was modelled by William Hackwood ...
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 ...
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 ...
It was for his jasperware, however, that Wedgwood is most famous. Jasperware is a white, slightly translucent stoneware that could take an even tint of one of various colours. Blue and green were the ...
atop classical Wedgwood blue Jasperware candles. As a true pioneer of luxury design, Clive Christian OBE has for the first time incorporated the unrivalled brilliance of diamonds into his ...