Unnamed (Seaweed) from the collection of Adrienne T. Boggs

Unnamed (Seaweed), c. 1885

Earthenware

10.63 x 8.63 in (27.0 x 21.92 cm)

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Platter, 10.63 x 8.63 inches. Brown transfer. Impressed maker's mark for Josiah Wedgwood. The three-letter date code dates the production of this platter to 1885. This pattern features a botanical display of various types of ocean flora positioned across the platter, including seaweed, seagrass, and algae.

Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on July 12, 1730, into a family with a long tradition as potters. At the age of nine, after the death of his father, he worked in his family's pottery. In 1759 he set up his own pottery works in Burslem. There he produced a highly durable cream-colored earthenware that so pleased Queen Charlotte that in 1762 she appointed him royal supplier of dinnerware. From the public sale of Queen's Ware, as it came to be known, Wedgwood was able, in 1768, to build near Stoke-on-Trent a village, which he named Etruria, and a second factory equipped with tools and ovens of his own design. At first only ornamental pottery was made in Etruria, but by 1773 Wedgwood had concentrated all his production facilities there. During his long career Wedgwood developed revolutionary ceramic materials, notably basalt and jasperware. After Wedgwood's death in Etruria on January 3, 1795, his descendants carried on the business, which still produces many of his designs.

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