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Documents for "Arts and Crafts: Biographies":

• Böttger, Johann Friedrich 1682-1719, German chemist and originator of Dresden china. When the Swedish invasion of Saxony occurred (1706), Böttger and his aides were removed from Dresden to protect the secret of the...

• Danforth, Thomas 1703-86, American pewterer, founder of a family of celebrated pewterers, b. Taunton, Mass. In 1733 he opened a pewter shop in Norwich, Conn., where he made a wide variety of pewter tableware of...

• Fabergé, Peter Carl 1846-1920, Russian goldsmith and jeweler, b. St. Petersburg. Sometimes described as a latter-day Cellini , he was descended from Huguenots and inherited (1870) his father Gustave's jewelry firm in his native city. The business flourished under the younger Fabergé's direction, expanding to include the...

• Lalique, René 1860-1945, French jewelery designer and glassmaker whose works are landmarks of arts nouveau and deco, b. Ay; apprenticed to Parisian goldsmith Louis Aucoq at 16; studied École des Arts...

• Minton English family of potters. The first important member of the family was Thomas Minton, 1765-1836, who founded a small pottery at Stoke-on-Trent. He first engraved the famous willow-pattern ware. Herbert Minton, 1793-1858, succeeded his father as head of the firm, and to him was due its development and reputation. He enlisted the services of artists and skilled artisans. A memorial museum and library...

• Spode, Josiah, I 1733-97, English potter. He founded a pottery firm in 1770 at Stoke-on-Trent in the Staffordshire pottery district. Creating many of his patterns after Japanese designs, he developed a highly...

• Tiffany, Charles Lewis 1812-1902, American merchant, b. Killingly, Conn. He founded the famous jewelry firm of Tiffany and Company, New York City. His improvements in styles of silverware won wide recognition, and when...

• Wedgwood, Josiah 1730-95, English potter, descendant of a family of Staffordshire potters and perhaps the greatest of all potters. At the age of nine he went to work at the plant owned by his brother Thomas in...