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

 

Detail on the February panels
[back to Statue of Wedgwood]

 

January

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 January
with the zodiac sign Aquarius

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detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Aquarius

 

detail of the terracotta panel for January
depicting a woman with small child - the newborn year

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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 January
depicting the mining of the coal needed to fire the kilns