Public Monuments and Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme
Public Monuments and Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme
 

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Josiah Wedgwood Memorial Institute (sculpture)
at Burslem
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detail on the October panels
[back to the August panels]
 

September 


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 September
with the zodiac sign Libra 


 


detail of the mosaic for the zodiac sign Libra

 


detail of the terracotta panel for September
depicting an older woman - the fruit of the vine is mature


 


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

this is the panel beneath September
plates are being made

   

 

 

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detail on the October panels
[back to the August panels]
 



 

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26 January 2006