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Wedgwood "Light Blue" Neo Classical Urn
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Wedgwood “Light Blue” Neo Classical Urn Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 — January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. He was a member of the Darwin — Wedgwood family, most famously including his grandson, Charles Darwin. Born the thirteenth and youngest child of Thomas Wedgwood III and Mary Wedgwood (née Stringer; d. 1766), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters. He survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV. Smallpox left Josiah with a permanently weakened knee, which made him unable to work the foot pedal of a potter’s wheel. As a result, he concentrated from an early age on designing pottery rather than making it. In his early twenties, Wedgwood began working with the most renowned English pottery-maker of his day, T. Whieldon. There he began experimenting with a wide variety of pottery techniques, an experimentation that coincided with the burgeoning early industrial city of Manchester, which was nearby. Inspired, Wedgwood leased the Ivy Works in his home town of Burslem and set to work. Over the course of the next decade, his experimentation (and a considerable injection of capital from his marriage to a richly endowed distant cousin, Sarah Wedgwood) transformed the sleepy artisan works into the first true pottery factory. Here we have a lovely 19th century Wedgwood Jasper Ware Urn with applied jasper ware relief of the Dancing Hours.
The work is 6.25 inches tall and in less than perfect condition. However this is a very lovely and impressive work, very decorative and a great example of the Neo Classical work. We believe this work, is mid 19th Century vintage. There is a very small chip at the foot, of little notice. Stamped “ Wedgwood “ only. Please Note: It is sold “AS-IS”. Both heads of Pan are missing their horns. Small loss to one leaf at bottom edge of body where it meets foot. 
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