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...most people, Wedgwood is just their cup of tea. The name of the British pottery firm, founded in 1759, connotes what Steuben does to glass or Gobelin to tapestries. Today Wedgwood, under the direction of the founder's great-great-great-grandson, has kept pace with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings...
...Before Wedgwood, those Englishmen who could not eat off gold plates ate off pewter and wooden trenchers. Josiah changed all that. At age nine, he had started "throwing," or molding clay, at his brother's pottery, opened his own kiln 20 years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen...
...caught up in the throes of a classical revival. The digs at lava-overlaid Herculaneum in Italy were uncovering arts of antiquity that the world was seeing for the first time. Architect Robert Adam was recapturing the glories of Greece and Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments. Wedgwood, too, plunked for the neoclassic against rococo excesses, writing in 1769: "Elegant simplicity-I shall more than ever make that idea a leading principle." He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware. Then he invented what is Wedgwood's most...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, by C. V. Wedgwood. This cool, precise account of the infamous trial and execution of England's Charles I does not take sides between the King and Oliver Cromwell, but history has already decided the case: Charles is noble and brave, and Cromwell remains the ambitious, dour man who made revolution and regicide popular...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, by C. V. Wedgwood. This cool, precise account of the infamous trial and execution of England's Charles I does not take sides between the King and Oliver Cromwell, but history has already decided the case: Charles is noble and brave, and Cromwell remains the ambitious, dour man who made revolution and regicide popular...