10% discount on Select Cards. Buy tableware, glassware & other dining products. Thomas Bentley (1731-1780) was an English manufacturer of pottery, known for his partnership with Josiah Wedgwood . Life He was born at Scropton, Derbyshire, on 1 January 1731. His father, Thomas Bentley, was a country gentleman of some property.
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY CREAMWARE 'PORPHYRY' TWOHANDLED VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1780
1778-80 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774 Artwork Details Overview Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Title: Medallion of Benjamin Franklin Maker: Wedgwood and Bentley (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1769-1780) Maker: Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759-present) Date: 1778-80 1769-1780 Biography Manufactory of Josiah Wedgwood I (q.v) and Thomas Bentley (q.v) between 1769 and Bentley's death in 1780. Based in Etruria, Staffordshire. Trade card in Banks Collection (D,2.1859) advertises "Wedgwood and Bentley's Mortars, For the Purpose of Chemical Experiments, the Uses of Apothecaries, and the Kitchen. The ceramics firm of Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley distinguished itself from other Staffordshire potteries by relying upon talented sculptors such as John Flaxman to reinterpret antiquity for modern British consumers. This vase is decorated with the "Dancing Hours," one of the best-known bas-reliefs designed around 1776-8 by Flaxman. Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley: An Inventor-Entrepreneur Partnership in the Industrial Revolution1 | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core Home > Journals > Transactions of the Royal Historical Society > Volume 14 > Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley: An Inventor-Entrepreneur. English Français 8 Cited by
Wedgwood and Bentley Mortar and pestle British, Staffordshire The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Research V&A Wedgwood Collection Wedgwood's abolition journey Kate Turner January 20, 2022 I Am a Man and a Brother. Display and trail open to visitors at the V&A Wedgwood Collection until March 2022 In 1787, Josiah Wedgwood began producing ceramic tokens with a protest symbol showing an enslaved man in chains. When Wedgwood began his work, Staffordshire was the home of several important ceramic manufacturers such as Josiah Spode and Thomas Minton. Wedgwood and Bentley made their company the most important of the Staffordshire potteries and arguably the best-known pottery in the western world. Etruria would run as a facility until the 1930s. Provenance Title: Mortar and pestle Maker: Wedgwood and Bentley (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1769-1780) Date: ca. 1780 Culture: British, Staffordshire Medium: Unglazed fine stoneware, wood Dimensions: mortar: 2 5/8 × 5 5/8 in. (6.7 × 14.3 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Pottery Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lazarus A. Orkin, 1978 Overview Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Provenance Title: Alexander the Great Maker: Wedgwood and Bentley (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1769-1780) Date: ca. 1779-80 Culture: British, Etruria, Staffordshire Medium: Black basalt ware Dimensions: confirmed: 22 7/16 × 12 1/2 × 11 1/4 in., 35.1 lb. (57 × 31.8 × 28.6 cm, 15.9 kg)
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY BLACK BASALT OVOID VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1775 Wedgwood and
Wedgwood's innovative coloured glazing techniques extended to the production of pickle-dishes, dessert services, sauce boats, plates and ceramic handles for cutlery. Georgian Britain's. In the 1770s Wedgwood and Bentley established the Etruria works near Stoke-on-Trent. Jasperware, granularly textured stoneware with white bas relief, was introduced in 1774. In later life Wedgwood was a prominent advocate of the abolition of slavery, from 1787 using his Wedgwood Jasperware as a means to publicise the cause in Britain and America.
JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AND THOMAS BENTLEY 5 argue the importance of an industry's ability to adjust itself to changing tastes and changing demand is to examine the part played by the merchant partner in individual industries. The career I wish to examine is that of Thomas Bentley, the partner of Josiah Wedgwood. It is, I think, a particularly signi. Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 - 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist.Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery.. The renewed classical enthusiasms of the late 1760s and early 1770s were of major importance to.
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY BLACK BASALT OVOID CASSOLETTES AND COVERS CIRCA 1770 Wedgwood
Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley period About 1772. Titles Juno and Eagle (Title) Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759@Wedgwood and Bentley period, 1769 - 1780; Medium stoneware (black basalt) Dimensions Overall: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm) Overall1: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm) Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Beeson, 1980.30; The Wedgwood company is a British pottery firm, originally founded by Josiah Wedgwood c1795, and possibly the most famous name ever associated with pottery. In modern times Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal in 1987 to become Waterford Wedgwood.
