biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1765–1836)
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| biography:
| Pottery and china manufacturer, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, WC England, UK, founder of the firm which bears his name. Originally trained as a transfer-print engraver, he worked for Josiah Spode before he set up his own business in Stoke-on-Trent (1789), producing copperplates for transfer-printing in blue underglaze. He is reputed to have invented the willow pattern. In 1793 he built a pottery works at Stoke, producing fine bone china, much of it tableware decorated with finely painted flowers and fruit. His son, Herbert (1793–1858), was his partner between 1817 and 1836, and succeeded him. |
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