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Aesop's fables on English ceramics.

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From: The Magazine Antiques
Date: 19940601
Author:Grigsby, Leslie B.

Aesop's Fables had been popular for centuries in England and by the 1700s had become a common decorative theme for ceramic objects. Several stoneware and earthenware pieces are described, a surprising number of which depict the fable 'The Fox and the Stork.'

It would be impossible to discuss in a single article all the eighteenth-century English ceramic objects that were inspired in shape or decoration by book illustrations of Aesop's fables. I will focus here on the earthenwares and stonewares inspired by these moralistic tales, which had become well-known to the British people ...

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