Ceramics: Art and Perception

Wedgwood collection comes home to Leith Hill Place

or the first time in over 50 years, a collection of Wedgwood ceramics formed by the Wedgwood family is on temporary display at Leith Hill Place, a National Trust property near Dorking, Surrey in England, until 29 October 2017. Sir Ralph Wedgwood, great–great–grandson of Josiah Wedgwood I (1730–1795) assembled the internationally important collection, which includes several significant documentary pieces on loan to the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (both in London), and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Sir Ralph’s grandson, Sir Martin Wedgwood (1933-2010) and his wife, Lady Alexandra Wedgwood, an architectural historian,

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