"Castle on a Road" depicts two different cityscapes on the exterior panels -- one of Europe, and the other of the Land of the Fays. The French "fai," from which "Fairy" is derived, came originally from the Italian "fatae," the fairy ladies who viisted homes and pronounced the future of new babies, as fairy godmothers in the story of "Sleeping Beauty," or the Three Fates did. "Fairy" originally meant "fai-erie," a state of enchantment. Makeig-Jones describes two boys who one day venture down a well which leads them to the Land of the Fays. They are treated well by the Fays who eventually return the boys home giving them fruits by which to remember them. The story tells how apples, pears and plums were first brought to Europe. In the two examples of "Castle on the Road" seen here, the world of reality and the world of fantasy are mixed in ideal harmony.

2006: "Art and Tradition: Design at Wedgwood in the Twentieth Century," February 3 – April 9, 2006, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
2001: "Imps on a Bridge: Wedgwood Fairyland and Other Lustres," May 6 - September 9, 2001, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Representational Bone china Lustreware bowl

This object has the following keywords:

• Art Nouveau
• Bowls
• Ceramics
• Cities
• City
• Clay
• Decorative
• European
• female
• Female
• Figures
• Flowers
• Forest
• Geometric
• Glazed
• Lustre
• Modernism
• Nature
• Porcelain
• Pottery
• Trees
• Wedgwood

• H: 4 3/4; Diam: 10 inches Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 10 in. (12.07 x 25.4 cm)

• Owner Name: Steve Arnhart
  Role: art dealer
  Place: Oceanside, California
  Dates: July 31, 2000
  
  

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