Newton, Master of the Universe

After a design by Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, Wedgwood

1997

This figure is a copy of a bronze statue that stands outside the British Library in London, erected by Paolozzi in 1995. It is based on Willian Blake’s famous image of Sir Isaac Newton plotting the immensity of the universe with a divider.

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Teapot of white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of cylindrical shape with straight spout highlighted with white jasper motifs and white jasper loop handle, the lower body decorated with a band of floral motifs below a white line, the main body with heavy swags full of fruits and vegetables and flowers strung from ram's heads with ribbons, above the swags are trophies and small vignettes enclosed in beaded borders, below the shoulder a band of leafy elements, the cover with acanthus and lotus motifs and flat finial.
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