Wedgwood Pottery and Porcelain were the first ceramics to be given basemarks, thanks to Josiah Wedgwood.
By the mid-18thC Wedgwood products ranged from brooches and snuffboxes to statuettes, plaques and tablewares. It was widely copied and the company exported all over Europe and the USA...
One of seven children, Susannah Margaretta 'Daisy' Makeig-Jones was born in 1881 in a small mining village near Rotherham, where her father was a GP.
Daisy had a vivid imagination and fairies bring good luck, they say. Daisy's run of luck began when she was placed in the studio next to the one where trials of new glazes were taking place.
True Fairyland Lustre first appeared in 1915. By this time Daisy's imagination was beginning to run riot Read more about Wedgwood and Daisy Makeig-Jones.