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Wedgwood and Museum
In 1773, Empress Catherine of Russia ordered the Green Frog Service from Wedgwood ; it can still be seen in the Hermitage Museum.
* Wedgwood Museum
Wedgwood copy in the British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with the original roundel base still in place.
The 3rd Duke loaned the original vase to Josiah Wedgwood ( see below ) and then to the British Museum for safe-keeping, at which point it was dubbed the " Portland Vase ".
Replica of Portland Vase, about 1790, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. V & A Museum no.
, others are held at the Fitzwilliam Museum ( this is the copy sent by Wedgwood to Erasmus Darwin which his descendants loaned to the Museum in 1963 and later sold to them ); the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum.
Designated collections in the West Midlands include Compton Verney and Wedgwood Museum amongst others.
Jasperware vase and cover, John Flaxman ( designer ), made by Wedgwood, England, About 1780, Unglazed stoneware Victoria and Albert Museum no.
* 2009 — Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Jasperware vase and cover, John Flaxman, Wedgwood, England, About 1780, Unglazed stoneware V & A Museum no.
* Wedgwood buttons, made 1785-1800, from the Victoria & Albert Museum jewellery collection.

Wedgwood and Barlaston
SATEB organizes an annual residential weekend at The Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent.
It is housed in purpose-built premises at the offices of the Esperanto Association of Britain which are now located at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, having moved from Holland Park, London in April 2001 due to financial pressures.
However, in April 2001, due to the cost of maintaining the building, the offices were relocated to a converted outhouse at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where they remain today, and where one of the largest and most important collections of material in and about Esperanto is to be found in the Montagu Butler Library.
Baron Wedgwood, of Barlaston in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The site was affected by mining subsidence, and most of the factory was demolished after the Wedgwood company moved production to Barlaston some miles south on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Josiah Wedgwood was born at Barlaston in Staffordshire, the son of Clement Wedgwood.
Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood ( 25 March 1901 Barlaston, England-17 May 1955 ) was a British anthropologist best known for research in the Pacific and her pioneering role as one of the British Commonwealth's first female anthropologists.
The Wedgwood factory is now in Barlaston, a village about six miles to the south of the Etruria site.
In 1936 Keith Murray was appointed architect in charge of designing the new Wedgwood factory at Barlaston, Staffordshire.
The small village stations of Wedgwood and Barlaston, a few miles to the south, are permanently served by BakerBus replacement bus service X1 only, the local stopping service to Stafford having been withdrawn in 2003 when the line was temporarily closed for upgrading and was never reinstated afterward.
This service calls at more stations along the line that is not served by any rail services, including Barlaston and Wedgwood.

Wedgwood and Stoke-on-Trent
In 1761, Josiah Wedgwood showed an interest in the construction of a canal through Stoke-on-Trent, the location of his Wedgwood pottery, as his business depended on the safe and smooth transport of his pots.
Six years before the complete opening of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1771, Wedgwood built the factory village of Etruria on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent, close to the canal.
The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria.
Josiah Wedgwood ( 1769 – 1843 ) was the son of the first Josiah Wedgwood, and Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent.
Its location in the district of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, is attractively rural, but fairly close to the pottery manufacturing area around Stoke-on-Trent which attracted its most famous owner Josiah Wedgwood II.

Wedgwood and UK
On 5 January 2009, news of the receivership of Waterford Wedgwood Ltd. was announced in Ireland and the UK.
* Jasper Conran at Wedgwood UK Website

Wedgwood and contains
Her dryly amusing childhood memoir, Period Piece, contains illustrations of and anecdotes about many of the Darwin — Wedgwood clan.

Wedgwood and display
Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris.

Wedgwood and trials
Wedgwood devoted four years of painstaking trials at duplicating the vase-not in glass but in black and white jasperware.

Wedgwood and vase
The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as " the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring " by the sculptor John Flaxman.
File: Vase-BlackBasalt-Wedgwood-BMA. jpg | Wedgwood vase in the style of Greek red-figure pottery, c. 1815
Clarice Cliff Wedgwood Repeoduction in ' Blue Firs ' pattern and ' Yoyo ' vase shape.

Wedgwood and several
A township that was once composed of several housing projects gravitating around the Wedgwood, Whitman Square, Birches, Birches West, and Hurffville neighborhoods has expanded outwards.
An early neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel, and John Flaxman was also, or mainly, a sculptor, mostly producing severely classical reliefs that are comparable in style to his prints ; he also designed and modelled neoclassical ceramics for Josiah Wedgwood for several years.
During his time at Heinz, O ' Reilly held roles as major shareholder and chairman of several companies, including Waterford Wedgwood ( 1995 – 2009 ) and Independent News & Media, and of a major partnership of solicitors, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, in Dublin.
Susie worked for many other pottery firms over the next several decades, including Wedgwood.
Following Darwin's marriage to Emma Wedgwood in January 1839, they shared discussions about Christianity for several years.
In 1946, Wedgwood residents formed Wedgwood Community Club, which lasted for several decades, but eventually petered out.

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