Potter’s stool - 1765
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Potter’s stool
© Wedgwood Museum
Wooden three legged stools were traditionally used throughout the ceramic industry.
Wooden three legged stools were traditionally used throughout the ceramic industry.
- Type of object: Non-ceramic objects/furniture
- Year first produced: 1765
- Material: Wood
- Accession number: 11467
- Dimensions: 400 mm (height), 380 mm (width), 240 mm (depth)
Related people
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Thomas Bentley
Associated
Thomas Bentley - Associated
Thomas Bentley was born in Scropton in Derbyshire, and was the son of a well-to-do country gentleman. He was educated at the Presbyterian Academy at Findern, and then indentured to a wholesale merchant in Manchester. He moved to Liverpool, and was introduced to Josiah I by Wedgwood’s surgeon, Matthew Turner. From this chance meeting grew a lifelong correspondence, friendship, and later business partnership. From August 1769 to Bentley’s death in 1780 the ornamental ware partnership with Josiah grew to huge proportions and was highly successful. After Bentley died, having lost his greatest friend and confidante, Wedgwood was inconsolable.
