teapots in cultural life and death

wedgwood blue pacific

what it does

pisse not upon their ashes.

'Tis opportune to look back upon old times, and contemplate our Forefathers. Great examples grow thin, and to be fetched from the passed world. Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides upon us. We have enough to do to make up our selves from present and passed times, and the whole stage of things scarce serveth for our instruction. A compleat peece of vertue must be made up from the Centos of all ages, as all the beauties of Greece could make but one handsome Venus.

When the bones of King Arthur were digged up⁹, the old Race might think, they beheld therein some Originals of themselves; Unto these of our Urnes none here can pretend relation, and can only behold the Reliques of those persons, who in their life giving the Laws unto their predecessors, after long obscurity, now lye at their mercies. But remembring the early civility they brought upon these Countreys, and forgetting long passed mischiefs; We mercifully preserve their bones, and pisse not upon their ashes.

cups in cultural life and death

AA Gill
Wedgwood blue pacific

vulva | vultus

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Apotropaic patterns [Gell] are demon –traps, in effect, demonic fly-paper.

Pattern and multiplicity operate like this

Bringing about attachment between people and objects

 

 

in short there is a choice between vulva and vultus, genitals and face, two fantastical equivalents... 

 patrimony - dad's 'diamond' in blue, wedgwood - design 63 - apothecary jar