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WEDGWOOD COMES TO US ON YOUTUBE
Here is a great YouTube video with history and current information by our friend and Wedgwood Museum Director, Gaye Blake-Roberts. Enjoy
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INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE -25% OFF ALL BONE CHINA ITEMS, PRODUCT #S IN 600 SERIES - BUY CHINA!!
Opening a brand new book that still smells of ink is such a sublime experience, almost as good as that musty smell of an old book reminding us of its history! Check out our newly listed items on the WEBSITE where things are always changing. AT ALEXIS ANTIQUES ANNEX WE'VE ADDED MORE NON-WEDGWOOD ENGLISH CERAMICS, TO INCLUDE SOME ABSOUTELY ADORABLE ADAMS Titian Ware VERNACULAR HAND PAINTED PLATES. CHECK THEM OUT! We've added lots of new jasperware too, blue and green AND some excellent black basalt wares!
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Here we have a lovely new take on Wedgwood design; we've seen many things in the past such as rugs, biscuit tins, cakes, fabrics for draperies and table linens, notepaper, and all manor of other items. In this instance it is refreshing to see a young person taking her cue from Wedgwood china patterns. You'll likely recognize the Wedgwood inspired dress right away. Enjoy!
What is there more endearing than Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit and his friends? And Wedgwood & Sons has produced a great deal of chinawares featuring Beatrix' characters over the years. The one illustrated here is a plate from 1959 to 1964, early Peter Rabbit Nurseryware. The pattern number is N527 and is only the second version of the pattern. The lines adorning the plate between the characters are a light green. Later versions were pink and blue, the green was discontinued in the mid 1960s. If you go here you will see other Peter Rabbit items which might delight your youngster this time of year, or the grown-ups who collect this delightful Wedgwood collectible china.
One of the United Kingdom's longest serving politicians died earlier today in London. He liked
to be known as Tony Benn but his full name was Anthony Neil Wedgwood
Benn.
His father was William Wedgwood Benn b. May 1877 and
his parents in turn were John Benn and Lily Pickstone. The name
Wedgwood entered the family because Lily was a distant relative of
Josiah I. To learn more about the amazing Tony Benn, google around, Wikipedia has a nice article about him. Another in a long line of Wedgwoods who have taken life by the horns and run with it, stirring up the dust as they went, just like our beloved Josiah I and our friend, the late Piers, Lord Wedgwood of Barlaston. May Tony rest in peace and love. Thank you to Lord Pulford of Scotland, really a Brit not a Scot, for alerting me to this latest death in the greater Wedgwood world.
I have just found an interesting blog entry regarding Mr. Benn which gives more biographical information about his family. See it here.
