Wedgwood

[ wej-woo d ]

/ ˈwɛdʒˌwʊd /

Josiah,1730–95, English potter.

Trademark. a brand of ceramic ware made by Josiah Wedgwood and his successors.

Example sentences from the Web for wedgwood

It is said of Wedgwood that he copied and imitated everything worth imitating.

The Ceramic Art |Jennie J. Young
After Wedgwood discovered young Flaxman he gave him some orders.

The Boyhood of Great Inventors |A. Fraser Robertson
The spirit of classicism was in the air in the days of Wedgwood.

Chats on Old Earthenware |Arthur Hayden
Palissy and Wedgwood are names that ought to be venerated by every artisan.

Knowledge is Power: |Charles Knight

The work of Wedgwood is the only distinctively inventive contribution made to the china-making art.

The Story of Porcelain |Sara Ware Bassett

Wedgwood ¹

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trademark

pottery produced, esp during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at the Wedgwood factories
such pottery having applied classical decoration in white on a blue or other coloured ground

relating to or characteristic of such pottery Wedgwood blue

Wedgwood ²

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Josiah. 1730–95, British potter and industrialist, who founded several pottery works near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire