| Description | Pottery manufacturers, estate and business. For over two hundred years, the Wood family, of Burslem, was at the forefront of ceramic history.
Early in the eighteenth century there were three brothers: Ralph, Aaron and Moses Wood.
1715 Ralph, the eldest, was born.
1717 Aaron, born in 1717, was the finest mould maker in the Staffordshire Potteries. He was the father of Enoch Wood, whose fame rests not only upon his great skill as a modeller, but on his ability as a practical potter-and his keenness and enthusiasm as a collector of pottery.
c.1750 Ralph Wood achieved renown with his famous, and now rare, Staffordshire figures and Toby Jugs, genuine examples of which are now 'museum pieces'.
Enoch Wood was apprenticed to Wedgwood before going into business with his cousin Ralph Jr, then with James Caldwell, then from 1818 as Enoch Wood & Sons, producing black basalt ware, jasper and blue-printed earthenware, much of which was exported to the US..
1840 Enoch died in his eighty-third year. That branch of the business closed in 1846. |