Eric James Mellon Studio Art Pottery PERSEPHONE Collectable
Eric James Mellon stoneware tile withhand painted underglaze illustration of Persephone. Eric James Mellon (30 November 1925 – 14January 2014) was a ceramic artist who specialises in using ash glaze and underglaze graphic drawings of figures. This is a unique stoneware tile with underglaze illustration of reclining nude figure, Persephone. Height 7.5″ (20 cm) Width 4″ (10 cm). Painted & Signed on the side “01/71 Eric James Mellon photaselpus Ash PERSEPHONE”. Public collections featuring his work include ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum and York Art Gallery, and pictures in Falmouth Art Gallery, Discover Bucks Museum and the Otter Gallery at the University of Chichester. Greek goddess and queen of the underworld. Persephone was the daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. She was kidnapped byHades, the god of the underworld, and taken to be his bride. Demeter became very sad when she found out what happened, and the plants began to wither and die. Zeus sent Hermes to bring Persephone back, but she could only return if she had not eaten any food in the underworld. Persephone had eaten some pomegranate seeds, so Hades demanded that she stay with him forever. Zeus decided that she could return to Earth for six months of the year. This is how the seasons began.
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