Wedgwood Jasperware Large Pair of Arcadian Candlesticks
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Wedgwood Jasperware Large Pair of Arcadian Candlesticks Here we have a lovely Wedgwood Jasperware Pair of Candlesticks of recent manufacture measuring 6.75 inches tall and 4 inches diameter and in good condition. It’s stamped WEDGWOOD, MADE IN ENGLAND and 1953 impressed in the base. 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.
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