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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of English pottery, 1787, from Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), English potter.
Wikipedia
Wedgwood is a British pottery firm founded by Josiah Wedgwood.
Wedgwood may also refer to:
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, commonly known as Wedgwood, is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories company founded on 1 May 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood.
In 1987, Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. Waterford Wedgwood was purchased by the New York City-based private equity firm KPS Capital Partners in 2009, and became part of a group of companies known as WWRD Holdings Ltd., an acronym for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton." Haines McGregor were engaged by KPS Capital to help reposition the portfolio of brands, within 2 years profitability was transformed from $100m yearly debt, to break even and eventually led to the successful sale to Fiskars in July 2015 for $437m. On 2 July 2015, Fiskars Corporation acquired WWRD.
Usage examples of "wedgwood".
Many alcoves opened off that huge chamber, with its vaulted ceiling that was painted bright blue, and the walls that were paneled with ebonized wood inlaid with Amboina in a heavily gilded floral pattern, the center panels containing olive-colored Wedgwood plaques.
Wedgwood blue, the heavy silk curtains were blueand-gold striped, and the carpet was an Aubusson that d the rug was was predominantly blue.
The accoutrements were exceptional, but the centerpieces, which came from the Castleton collection of prized ceramics, were extraordinary: elaborate covered urns from the famous Sivres factory, a Vincennes demi-bouteille, Meissen clocks and vases, Staffordshire animals, Frankenthal figures, Wedgwood luster bowls, Spode jars.
I shouted as a Wedgwood Kutani Crane seven-inch tea plate went whizzing past his left ear and smashed into the garden wall.
Wedgwood cup with the handle she broke, dreaming of living in Paris like de Beauvoir and Sartre, and going home that day laughing to herself about the nerdy Jack Salmon, who was pretty cute even if he hated smoke.
Throughout the massive chamber, the decorative urns and pots and amphorae and figurines were either Wedgwood basalts with Empire-period themes or Han Dynasty porcelains.
Wordsworth, as we have seen, made no scruple to accept the benevolences of the Wedgwoods.
He knew so little of panellings and carvings and apostle spoons and primrose Wedgwood that he was able to go on taking it for granted that Fidelity was a dead farmer's daughter and as simple as her sunbonnet.
Thus it was characteristic of Big James to ask Edwin to be waiting for him at the back gates in Woodisun Bank when he might just as easily have met him at the side door by the closed shop in Wedgwood Street.
Wedgwood, in the Introduction to his `Dictionary of English Etymology,' 2nd edit. 1872, p.
Wedgwood plates, delicately tinted, Georgian silver, heavy and gleaming, Baccarat crystal waiting to be filled with cool white wine and sparkling water, Irish linen soft enough to sleep on.
The house was painted light Wedgwood blue picked out with white and was discreetly crowned with two satellite dishes, a navigation dome, and a podded device that looked for all the world like a small laser cannon.
Now coffee was brought out in an old, dented silver service, poured into the owner's personal Wedgwood bone china cups, and served around the long table.
It was Mama's cameo, an ivory face set in an oval of Wedgwood blue.
The cream walls and Wedgwood blue doors were set off by a strip of wallpaper across the top of the walls that had been designed to convey the impression of crown molding.