Description
This cup is of a 15th century woodcut “the devil’s assault on the dying man is a theme that pervades all [medieval] popular tradition.” (From Alfonso M. Do Nola, 1987.) I found it printed in Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, a key volume on history of women in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. It makes me think of a dreamer confronting horrifying parts of their self in a nightmare…or a client on a psychotherapist’s cauch.
The same print is on both sides of the cup, with a natual variation of the print. Cobalt lithography on clay.
Stoneware, dishwasher safe, 200ml in volume.
Hand made, hand printed and fired in Deptford, London, UK.
2026, signed.
