William Greatbatch
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William Greatbatch was a potter at Fenton, Staffordshire, from the mid-eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Fenton was one of the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries, which we
Jug by William Greatbatch, c. 1770–1782 in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
Cream jug modelled and made by Greatbach, c. 1765
A typical William Greatbatch teapot, depicting 'The Fortune Teller'. Creamware with overglaze printed and painted decoration. c. 1778–1782.
Aurora teapot, 1760s, hand-painted overglaze enamels over transfer-printed black.
Etruria Works
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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 after the historic Italian region. The factor
William Greatbatch
…wares to Josiah Wedgwood during a business partnership lasting some twenty years and later, following a bankruptcy, worked directly for Wedgwood at the Etruria works until his retirement. Greatbatch was especially important as a designer and modeller of complicated patterns for tableware shapes, designing and…
Neoclassical "Black Basalt" Ware vase by Wedgwood, c. 1815 AD, imitating "Etruscan" and Greek vase painting style.
Jasperware vase and cover. Made by Wedgwood, Etruria, England, about 1790, Unglazed stoneware Victoria and Albert Museum no. 2416-1901