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

Detail on the April Panels
[back to the February panels]

 

March 

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 March
with the zodiac sign Aries

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detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Aries

 

detail of the terracotta panel for March
depicting the young man planting out seedlings

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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 March
depicting workers preparing the clay, making is smooth for the potter to use