A brief history of Wedgwood China

The history of the line began in 1730 with the birth of Josiah Wedgwood family, ceramics. At the age of six years, Josiah was apprenticed by 14 he suffered and had weakened the an attack of smallpox, his right knee. By Josiah 1760, had their own porcelain factory and experimented with various formulas, clays and glazes and technological advances in the art of transferring the design to the finished product. In 1765 he produced a complete set for Queen Charlotte, announced himself as a "Potter of the Queen", and its activity moved to.

Josiah crowning performance was his creation of Jasperware. Tone of Jasper, which produce a dense, basalt and original formulas of Josiah is evenly translucent porcelain bride. Jasperware started failed after more than 10,000 experiments with different clays and glazes in 1775 to overwhelming success, in particular its customers the new democracy of United States of America. Josiah shortly afterwards said "there was no item too rich or too costly for Americans."

Died 1795 Wedgwood and the business that, had her children, which was raised rich, absolutely no interest in running. The work has dropped to a grandson, Tom Byerly, strongly with the burden of managing a company who had little love for fighting. The next 25 years designed to turn difficult for the company and Josiah II helming set restoring the formulas and the standards of his father he assumed. Needless to say, constant economic turmoil, wars and growing competition from 1800 very difficult and it was not until the 20th century, under the leadership of Josiah V, to improve things.

With the production of new, rationalized structures began aggressive marketing worldwide especially in America and exclusive designs, Wedgwood China is gaining importance in the industry. Wedgwood shares in London Stock Exchange were introduced in 1966 and since then has been involved with the aggressive expansion of the company. The assets were Susie Cooper, Royal Tuscan, William Adams, a Franciscan, Mason Eisenstein, Waterford Wedgwood and Rosenthal are merged Wedgwood group. Josiah Wedgwood would have been proud.