page_title: William Adams (potter)
hierarchical_section_title: William Adams (potter)
caption_attribution_description: English: Print of the Greengates pottery, North Staffordshire, circa 1780
context_page_description: William Adams was an English potter, a maker of fine jasperware shortly after its development and introduction to the English market by Wedgwood.
  Adams was one of three north Staffordshire William Adamses who were potters working at the time: all were cousins in an extended Adams family of potters of very many generations. This Adams founded the Greengates Pottery in 1779, producing fine jasperware table sets, plaques, medallions and other products stamped Adams & Co. He is said to have been a friend and confidant of Josiah Wedgwood.
context_section_description: William Adams (baptised 1746; died 1805) was an English potter, a maker of fine jasperware shortly after its development and introduction to the English market by Wedgwood.
  Adams was one of three north Staffordshire William Adamses who were potters working at the time: all were cousins in an extended Adams family of potters of very many generations. This Adams founded the Greengates Pottery in 1779, producing fine jasperware table sets, plaques, medallions and other products stamped Adams & Co. He is said to have been a friend and confidant of Josiah Wedgwood.
caption: The Greengates Pottery, ca. 1780
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