The blue lustre exterior enriched in the 'Ghostly Wood' pattern including the white rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, all above a lower section decorated with the 'Flaming Wheel' motif, the interior rim, waist and foot with 'Rhages Bead'-pattern bands
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

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In Wedgwood's 1921 advertising brochure, Some Glimpses of Fairyland, Daisy Makeig-Jones identifies the 'Ghostly Wood' motif as the Land of Illusion, a fearsome world of spirits and apparitions crossed by the heroine Mitaine, goddaughter of Charlemagne and squire to Roland, in the novel La Légende de Croque-Mitaine by Ernest l'Epine, published in 1863 with illustrations by Gustave Doré among a vogue for romantic Matter-of-France literature. The motif designed by Makeig-Jones illustrates the novel's ghostly figures, magical bats and toads and chilling demon-tree, alongside a White Rabbit which, Makeig-Jones describes, has appeared "to guide the immortal Alice to Wonderland." Although 'Ghostly Wood' was produced on bodies of several shapes, it only appears in the present orientation, its figures progressing from left to right, when applied to the present shape, no. 2033.