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

Detail on the June panels
[back to the April panels]

 

May 

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 May
with the zodiac sign Gemini 

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detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Gemini

 

detail of the terracotta panel for May
depicting the young woman growing mature - as the plants are maturing in the ground

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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 May
the vase is being turned in a lathe and handles fitted