Teapot with depiction of John Wesley

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons British
 Transfer print by Guy Green British

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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.

Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool

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Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool
Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool
Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool
Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool
Teapot with depiction of John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present), Creamware, tranfer printed, British, Liverpool

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