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In collaboration with Annie Sloan, this original artwork has been created exclusively for Oxfordshire ArtWeeks, inspired by the Bodleian's medieval bestiary collection.

A compilation plate showing a collection of humanoid figures from various pages of the bestiaries. These include figures from Greco-Roman geographic works by Classical intellectuals such as Pliny the Elder and Ctesias, among others. Monopods (people with one foot “who have only one leg but can leap with surprising agility. The same people are also called Sciapodae, because they are in the habit of lying on their backs, during the time of the extreme heat, and protect themselves from the sun by the shade of their feet”), Centaurs, Pandi (giant-eared people with eight fingers who live for two hundred years) and many other weird and wonderful humanoid beings enliven this bowl fabulously. 

These handmade plates are made from red terracotta clay (earthenware), individually thrown and trimmed on a potter's wheel. Loosely based on Delftware 'Blue Dash' chargers from the 17th & 18th centuries. Hand painted by Annie Sloan and fired in an electric kiln to 1080 degrees Celsius. 

This piece is matt glazed.

• Handmade plates made from red terracotta clay (earthenware)
• Individually thrown and trimmed 
• Hand painted with ceramic glazes and signed by Annie Sloan 
• 33.4cms diameter