Wedgewood Pottery

Josiah Wedgewood and sons who are more commonly known just as Wedgewood is a pottery company which is owned by KPS Capital Partners who are based in New York.

Wedgewood was firstly founded on the 1st of may in 1759 by Josiah Wedgewood. 

Up till 1759 Josiah Wedgewood worked with potter Thomas Whielden when his relatives gave him a lease for the Ivy House so that he could begin his own pottery company. He had great success in this alongside with his marriage who was a cousin of his named Sarah. In 1765 he created new earthware which really impressed the British Queen and was given permission to name it as Queen's Ware which then sold extremely well all across Europe. The most famous ware of Wedgewood's is Jasper ware which was made to look like ancient cameo glass. However he created his simple blue and white decor plates which he is also very known for. My dad the other week was working at the old Wedgewood factory and found in a heep on the floor around 100 of these small moulds which were made out of plaster, he brought them home and we now have a large collection of Wedgewood moulds in our house. They are very detailed small pieces with faces which you can see perfectly and very detailed branches of plants. He looked on the auctioning site 'Ebay' and each of these moulds are selling for at lest £30 and we are now in possession of nearly 100 of them.