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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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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).
George Hepplewhite
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
English furniture designer
Enoch Wood
English potter
Aaron Wood
English potter
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
English cabinetmaker
Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
William Morris
British artist and author
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer