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...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
...Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
Success Through Failure. He plowed his field the hard way. Wedgwood kept 10,000 of the trial pieces that preceded his perfection of jasper ware (a hard white semiporcelain which took a fine blue tint). His eventual success made possible the mass production of quality pottery. His experiments took pottery out of the luxury class-and made him a millionaire...
...TOWER OF BABEL (427 pp.)-Ellas Conetti, translated by C. V. Wedgwood-Alfred Knopf...
Fanciers of Wedgwood and Spode (or cheap imitations) stared coldly at the clean, uninhibited lines, the unadorned and self-sufficient surfaces of modern dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...