Wedgwood

“Heaven’s sake, man! You’re a potter, not an alchemist,” his brother once chided as he watched Josiah work, his bench littered with more bottles and jars than an apothecary’s shop. But was there really a difference? To turn common clay and pigment into something durable, elegant, timeless…

“Beg pardon, sir.” An apprentice had materialized at his elbow. “The test pieces are ready. This one’s my favorite,” he added bashfully, handing over a pale blue bowl. It was powder smooth in Josiah’s rough hands, at once cool as marble and warm with the memory of the kiln. Suddenly the light streaming through the sooted factory windows seemed woefully inadequate.

He brought the bowl out into the street, where a stiff summer breeze had freed the sky from its veil of kilnsmoke and revealed in its place the kindest of blues. The blue of the bowl. If he could reach up into that quarry of endless blue, grab a handful of it and shape it on the wheel, it would be indistinguishable from what he held now in his hand. This was his alchemy. He had created gold, and his gold was blue.

Words by Kathleen Joyce

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