{"id":147444,"date":"2025-10-27T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:50:10","slug":"sculptors-widow-unveils-repaired-josiah-wedgwood-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147444\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor&#8217;s widow unveils repaired Josiah Wedgwood statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A rebuilt sculpture of world-famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, which was inadvertently demolished two years ago, has been unveiled by the sculptor&#8217;s widow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The brick-built head, known as Capo, was installed at Etruria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent and officially revealed during a ceremony on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was reduced to rubble in 2023 during works to regenerate Etruria Valley, sparking the resignation of former deputy council leader Daniel Jellyman who gave the go-ahead for the demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chloe Chard, widow of sculptor Vincent Woropay who died in 2002, said he would have been been &#8220;so delighted, and touched, and relieved,&#8221; to see his work restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rebuilt sculpture of world-famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, which was inadvertently demolished two years ago, has been unveiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-147444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115445040572017004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}