Teapot with depiction of John Wesley
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Guy Green
ca. 1775 · Creamware, tranfer printed · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This transfer-printed teapot depicts the theologian and preacher John Wesley (1703-91), who helped found the Methodist movement in England. Wesley’s traveling ministry took him across England and Ireland, and in 1760 encountered Josiah Wedgwood during a visit to Staffordshire. Wedgwood was a Rational Dissenter, a sect of protestant reformers like the Methodists. Rational Dissenters emphasized a spirituality tempered by reason and learning, a freedom of conscience, and a critical stance towards the enormous political and economic power wielded by the Church of England.
- Artist
- Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Guy Green
- Date
- ca. 1775
- Medium
- Creamware, tranfer printed
- Culture
- British, Liverpool
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of the Starr and Wolfe Family, 2018
