Handbuilt smooth crank body supplied by Valentine Clays.
Fired to 1275C.
Decorated with Albany slip and underglaze colours.
Height 50 cms x 35 x 30 cms.
Pandora, young and beautiful, is appointed guardian of a box. This box contains the most devastating secrets in mythology. Of these secrets Pandora has no inkling. She must only guard the box, and is forbidden to open it.
Pandora obeys for a while, but then she is overcome by curiousity and lifts the lid. As she glimpses that the box contains, she tries to close the lid, but it is too late.
At that moment, all the evils of the world that hve been held captive inside are released.
First anger, then envy, avarice and lust, gluttony, sloth,and pride, the seven deadly sins are freed to cause untold misery to mankind for all eternity. But then last of all, a butterfly emerges, the symbol of hope, a gift to sustain through the very worst of circumstances.
Joan Bideau. UK
Tel : ( UK ) 01282 426875
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