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Baptized July 12, 1730
Died January 3, 1795 • England
Inventions pyrometer
Movement / Style Georgian style • Neoclassical art • Wedgwood ware

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Enoch Wood
English potter
Aaron Wood
English potter
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
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British cabinetmaker
Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
John Astbury
English potter
English slipware dish, “The Pelican in Her Piety,” by Thomas Toft, c. 1670; in the British Museum
Thomas Toft
English potter
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
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Ralph Wood, Jr.
English potter
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Bernard Leach: vase
Bernard Leach
British potter
Rie, Lucie: porcelain bowl
Dame Lucie Rie
British potter
Flaxman, John: The Fury of Athamas
John Flaxman
British sculptor
John Cobb
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Francis Edward Elmore
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English metallurgist
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
William Morris
British artist and author
John Herschel
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Lovell, Sir Bernard
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