Sauceboat (Argyle) (part of a set)
Josiah Wedgwood
ca. 1780
Medium
Creamware
Dimensions
Height (with cover): 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Etruria, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Steven J. Hirsch, 1965
Accession Number
65.152.1a, b
Tags
FlowersHuman Figures
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...