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Waterford Wedgwood through the ages

  • ️Mon Jan 05 2009

  • 1770: Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery founder in an engraving by G Shury after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

    Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Josiah Wedgwood

  • A Wedgwood ceiling panel in Dublin

    Photograph: The Irish Image Collection/Corbis

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Wedgwood Ceiling Panel

  • 1809: The Wedgwood and Byerley Room in London

    Photograph: Philip de Bay/Historical Picture Archive/COR

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Interior of Chinashop, London 1809

  • 1930: Production line workers dipping pots into a vat of glaze at the Wedgwood pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

    Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Pot Glazers at the Wedgwood pottery

  • 1937: A pile of commemorative coronation mugs and teapots at the Wedgwood potteries in Stoke-on-Trent

    Photograph: Alan Webb/Getty Images

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Commemorative coronation mugs at the Wedgwood potteries

  • 1947: Wedgwood earthenware being packed for shipment overseas

    Photograph: Nat Farbman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Wedgwood earthenware being packed for shipment overseas

  • 1968: Tommy Wall of Waterford Glass engraves a coat of arms on a lead crystal vase

    Photograph: Jim Sugar/Corbis

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Engraver works on lead crystal vase at Waterford glass

  • 1973: A woman makes silhouette cameo portaits of Princess Anne at the Wedgwood factory to commemorate the wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips

    Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORB

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Woman Makes Wedgewood Wedding Souvenirs

  • 2000: Master glassblower Tom Rowe blows a crystal table centrepiece at the Waterford Wedgwood headquarters in Ireland

    Photograph: AP

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Glassblower Tom Rowe blows glass at Waterford Wedgwood

  • 2008: An Indonesian woman inspects teacups in the Wedgwood/Royal Doulton china factory in Tangerang, Indonesia

    Photograph: Ed Wray/AP

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Wedgwood/Royal Doulton china factory in Tangerang, Indonesia

  • 2009: Waterford Crystal glasses on a shelf in a Dublin city centre store as it was announced that Waterford Wedgewood was going into administration

    Photograph: Julien Behal/PA

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Waterford Wedgwood calls in administrators

  • Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Crockery in the window of a Waterford Wedgwood shop

  • 2009: A reduced Wedgwood photoframe. The pottery and glassware firm is the latest victim of the global economic slowdown

    Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

    Gallery Wedgwood Waterford: Waterford Wedgewood Become Latest Casualty Of The Economic Downturn