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

Detail on the March panels
[back to the January panels]

 

February 

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 February
with the zodiac sign Pisces

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detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Pisces

 

detail of the terracotta panel for February
depicting a young man with implements for preparing the soil

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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 February
depicting coopers manufacturing barrels - to transport the finished ware