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The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria. The factory ran for 180 years. Wedgwood had previously based his business in the nearby town of Burslem at the Ivy House Works and the Brick House Works (demolished – the Wedgwood Institute is built on its site). In 1767 Wedgwood paid about three thousand pounds for his new site, which was then known as the Ridgehouse Estate. It lay directly in the path of the Trent and Mersey Canal of which Wedgwood was a promoter. On one side of the canal Wedgwood built a large house, Etruria Hall and on the other side a factory. His architect was Joseph Pickford. == Wedgwood and Etruscan art == The motto of the Etruria works was ''Artes Etruriae Renascuntur''. This may be translated from the Latin as "The Arts of Etruria are reborn".〔(Wedgwood Museum website )〕 Wedgwood was inspired by ancient pottery then generally described as Etruscan. In particular he was interested in artworks which Sir William Hamilton began to collect in the 1760s while serving as British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton )〕 Hamilton's collections were published as Etruscan, although the term was a misnomer, as many of the "Etruscan" items turned out to be pottery of ancient Greece.〔Winckelmann's ''Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums'' ("The History of Art in Antiquity") of 1764 first refuted the Etruscan origin of what we now know to be Greek pottery. Hamilton independently came to the conclusion that he was collecting pottery of Greek origin. (See (The Hunt ''Krater'', British Museum ))〕 The designers employed by Wedgwood, of whom John Flaxman is the most famous, were able to adapt this classical art for the eighteenth-century market.〔An example of pottery used by Wedgwood as source material is the hydria (''Red-figured water jar (hydria), signed by Meidias as potter )''. British Museum. London.〕 The products of Wedgwood's factory were greatly admired in Britain and abroad. Some of Flaxman's designs are still in production today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Etruria Works」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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