Public Monuments and Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme
Public Monuments and Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme
 

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Josiah Wedgwood Memorial Institute (sculpture)
at Burslem
Wedgwood Institute Index


detail on the December panels
[back to the October panels]

 

November 


On the upper storey a series of twelve terracotta panels
set in arcading illustrate the months of the year,
and above them mosaic signs of the zodiac.

This is the panel for November
with the zodiac sign Sagittarius  


 


detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Sagittarius

 


detail of the terracotta panel for November
depicting an old woman - spinning wool


 


Between the storeys are ten relief terracotta panels which depict the processes involved in the manufacture of pottery.

this is the panel beneath November
ware is being decorated, dipped in glaze
on the right transfers are being printed

   

 

Wedgwood Institute Index


detail on the December panels
[back to the October panels]



 

 

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29 January 2006