Cup (part of a set)

Josiah Wedgwood

late 18th century

Cup (part of a set) by Josiah Wedgwood

Medium

Jasper dip

Dimensions

Height: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)

Classification

Ceramics-Pottery

Culture

British, Etruria, Staffordshire

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1914

Accession Number

14.132.49

About the Artist

Josiah Wedgwood · 17301795

Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, the thirteenth child of a potter whose family had worked in the craft since the seventeenth century. Apprenticed to his elder brother Thomas following their father's death, he went on to a partnership with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton — the most respected potter in England at the time — which gave him command of all the principal techniq...

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