Wedgwood: the radical potter
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Wic Wer's Symbol of the Continental Army in the United States
Widgewood created a coiled rattlesnake with the phrase, do not tread on me. Also produced at this beautiful jasper ware a medallion of the storming of the bastille. He was consciously putting him on the side of the revolutionaries who were fighting against the government of lord north and king george the third. It was a pretty radical er, er step to make.
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