Wedgewood Pottery
Led by the ambitious, energetic, and enterprising Josiah Wedgwood and
his successors at the Etruria factory, English potters in the late 18th
and early 19th centuries became resourceful and inventive. Wedgwood's
contributions consisted mainly of a much improved creamware, his
celebrated jasperware, so-called black basalt, and a series of fine
figures created by famous modelers and artists. After Wedgwood, other
potters of the first half of the 19th century developed a number of new
wares. Of these, Parian ware was the most outstanding and commercially
successful.
