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

detail on the September panels
[back to the July panels]

 

August 

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 August
with the zodiac sign Virgo 

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detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Virgo

 

detail of the terracotta panel for August
depicting a maturing woman - the harvest is gathered in

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

this is the panel beneath August
the vase is being finished, decoration and glaze applied
a modeller works on the right side