Punch pot with cover
1760–65
Medium
Red stoneware
Dimensions
Overall: 9 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (23.5 × 36.5 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, possibly Burslem, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.27.6a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Josiah Wedgwood · 1730–1795
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...