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Staffordshire pottery and its history (1913) (14586934407)
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Title: Staffordshire pottery and its history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement), 1872-1943
Subjects: Staffordshire pottery Potters Wedgwood ware
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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enough to be idle, retired from the firm, and conveyed their shares to the younger Josiah. Till 105 WEDGWOODS STAFFORDSHIRE Thomas Byerleys death in 1810, the firm wasknown as Wedgwood, Son and Byerley.* Josiah Wedgwood himself died on January 3,1795. He bequeathed to his second son Josiahhis share in the factory and an estate of 363 acresin Stoke and Hanley, and to his other children afortune of about £160,000.f Mr Burton sumsup the result of his work as follows: His in-fluence was so powerful, and his personality sodominant, that all other English potters workedon the principles he had laid down, and thus afresh impulse and a new direction was given tothe pottery of England and of the civilized world.He is the only potter of whom it may truly besaid that the whole subsequent course of potterymanufacture has been influenced by his individ-uality, skill and taste. J *Jewitt, op. cit.y p. 319, etc. tSee his Will, Jewitt, op. cit., pp. 413-9. J Burton, English Earthenware, p. 151. 106
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G W.BACON i CO l>» 127 STRAND, LONOON To face p. 107 CHAPTER VII. AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. WEDGWOODS financial success withhis Jasper and Black Etruscan ware, asuccess hitherto quite unique in theexperience of the Potteries, led every potter of any-capacity to attempt the same lines. They cannotbe blamed for trying to imitate what was demandedby the fashionable market. The whole progress ofthe industry had been based upon the copying ofsuccessful processes, and Wedgwood did notpatent his patterns or methods, even could hehave done so. All over the Potteries they followed in his steps,content to reap with little trouble the advantagesof his past labours—reproducing his patterns andavoiding all dangerous novelty. Invention diedand the wares, tamely and ignorantly copied byinartistic workmen, sank artistically throughout the next half century. The copyist, imitator or 107 WEDGWOODS STAFFORDSHIRE rival, who annoyed Wedgwood most in his life-time was Humphrey Palmer of H
The Etruscan civilization was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered at its greatest extent, roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western Campania. The earliest evidence of a culture that is identifiably Etruscan dates from about 900 BC. This is the period of the Iron Age Villanovan culture, considered to be the earliest phase of Etruscan civilization, which itself developed from the previous late Bronze Age Proto-Villanovan culture in the same region. Etruscan civilization endured until it was assimilated into Roman society. Assimilation began in the late 4th century BC as a result of the Roman–Etruscan Wars; it accelerated with the grant of Roman citizenship in 90 BC, and became complete in 27 BC, when the Etruscans' territory was incorporated into the newly established Roman Empire.
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