Wedgwood

1 “She just did a handful of designs for Wedgwood, but they clearly hit a nerve in the market,” said Hilary Young, a senior curator of ceramics and glass at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

2 Wedgwood’s founder, the redoutable Josiah Wedgwood, took the unusual step of commissioning some designs from women in the 1780s.

3 Between the wars Whistler had risen to prominence with a collection of work that included commercial designs for Wedgwood Pottery, Shell Petroleum, Guinness and The London Underground.

4 This being the 18th century, some ghastly medical events happened within the walls of the Wedgwood domicile, though usually nothing “a Puke, & the Cold Bath & Pump” and the like couldn’t fix.

5 Painted on Wedgwood china and hand embroidered on lush linen, it will be released in April, when Kemp’s pop-up shop opens at Bergdorf Goodman.

6 Charles was already good friends with one of the Wedgwood children, Hensleigh, the juggler of children and boxes.

7 Unlike the young women in the novels of Jane Austen, Emma Wedgwood was not mooning over Charles or plotting for a marriage.

8 Over the next 10 years, he led and designed the groundbreaking "Wedgwood Rooms" programme – collaborations with major retailers which after postwar austerity brought Wedgwood's ware to shoppers and set new standards for retail display.

9 Unable to purchase sufficient white china clay in England to complete the order, Wedgwood dispatches his nephew, Tom Byerley, to Cherokee country to acquire clay from the Indians.

10 The food was served on Wedgwood crockery with short silver cutlery.

这些食物是用韦奇伍德装饰陶瓷伴以银质短刀叉送到旅客面前的。

11 John Howard’s creamware from the same period, invented by the early industrialist Josiah Wedgwood, copies the designs of contemporary silver vessels.

12 Wilson's father was managing director of Wedgwood, his grandfather a master potter; he and his siblings are the first generation of Wilsons not to be industrial potters since the reign of George III.

13 They are made of a glossy black material that evokes the sleek, proto-modern ceramics that Josiah Wedgwood pioneered in the 1760s, winning him rights to be the earliest creator in the MoMA collection.

14 The cover, though jazzed up with modernist-style meandering pattern, is mostly a solid, recessive Wedgwood blue.

15 Its £130m pension debt was transferred to the Wedgwood Museum Trust, prompting it to go into administration.

16 You can fill a flower-bedecked Herend serving bowl full of orchid plants or plant herbs in a row of Wedgwood teacups you keep on a windowsill.

17 Wedgwood’s father “failed to make much of a mark.”

18 Ravilious also prolifically designed posters, furniture, textiles, ceramics and glassware, for clients as prominent as Wedgwood and London Transport.

19 Maer was only a day’s carriage ride from the Mount, and when he was a child, Charles and his Wedgwood cousins visited back and forth often.

20 Dozens of scholars contributed essays about ceramics makers, from central England’s venerable Wedgwood to Manhattan’s forgotten James Carr.

1 粉蓝色

powder blue

2 淡蓝色

smoke