Wedgwood A Living Tradition

The Brooklyn ~l use um is glad of the opportunity to present to the public the exhibition, "Wedgwood-A Living Tradition." Here will be found a detailed and documented visual history of the accomplishments of ten genera Lions of a single family, whose name has become a household word. The work of this single family is consisternly distinguish ed by its excellence, and it can fairly be said to represent a typical cross section of more than three hundred years of the history of the whole English ceramic industry. For Gilbert Wedgwood, first known potter of the family, employed in 1612 only the crudest of handicraft methods, while the ·wedgwood industry of today incorporates in its modern plant the latest developments in the science of manufacture and of industrial relations. Between these two extremes is shown the cornribution in taste and technique which each age made to the sum total which the name "wedgwood" conveys to us today.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

THE WEDGWOOD FAMILY

EARLY DAYS

JOSIAH WEDGWOOD

ETRURIA PERIOD

WEDGWOOD-THE SCIENTIST

WEDGWOOD-THE ARTIST

WEDGWOOD-THE PROGRESSIVE

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