1762, Josiah met the businessman Thomas Bentley. With the funds provided by the other party, josiah began to study new pottery-making technology. Soon, he successfully experimented with white porcelain. 1765, this kind of porcelain was selected by Queen Charlotte, and Wedgwood was allowed to be called "Queen's Imperial Porcelain" from then on. Wedgwood ceramics are durable, and the style is the popular neoclassical style at that time, which quickly became popular in Britain.
1774, Wedgwood factory produced a set of 952 sets of beige tableware for Russian Queen Katrina. Each of these porcelains is painted with a British landscape map, with a total of 1244 meticulous paintings, thus making the whole set of tableware a real work of art. At this time, Wedgwood ceramics have gained a considerable reputation. Many factories in Europe followed Wedgwood's example and switched to beige ceramics. Even some large factories in France and Germany were affected.
65438+In the late 1960s, Wedgwood adopted the latest manufacturing technology at that time to produce a fine black unglazed stoneware. This kind of stoneware is so hard that it will spark when it collides with steel. Although the surface of the material is dull, antiques and Renaissance products can be imitated by polishing. Wedgwood's products in this field include black pottery stamps, porcelain plates, busts, jewelry and vases. Because of its exquisite workmanship, many of them are loved by antique collectors in the middle of the18th century.
Wedgwood introduced the jasper stoneware in 1775. This is a white, dull and unglazed stoneware, pixel porcelain, which can be used as both an ornament and a black stoneware. Wedgwood hired john flaxman, a famous sculptor at that time, to copy his statues and relief patterns into jasper pottery. These white ornaments are attached to the carcass of pottery, which is in sharp contrast with the color of the carcass. The three-dimensional relief effect is amazing, and every work is full of romance and dignity.
18 12 years, Wedgwood first introduced exquisite bone China tableware. Bone China has a certain proportion of animal bone powder, which is pure white and translucent. This kind of porcelain is beautiful, moist, light and extremely durable. 1902, President Roosevelt gave a banquet at the White House, the luxury cruise ship Queen Mary set sail 1935, and Queen Elizabeth was crowned 1953. Wedgwood bone China tableware participated in these famous century ceremonies. 1September, 1988, Wedgwood propped up a truck weighing 15 tons with four bone China coffee cups in a product exhibition, showing the firmness of its bone China vessels.