Artist: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, factory; Date(s): 1955; Classification(s): earthenware, animal figure, slip casting, Creamware (Queensware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2000-05-08, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [C.12-2000]
Description: Creamware (Queensware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel. The stylised bull stands on all four feet with its head lowered and its tail waving against its left hind quarter. The body is scattered with vignettes of the zodiac signs and symbols in pink and brown or yellow and brown with grey backgrounds, interspersed with brown and yellow stars. The details of the bull's head and tail are painted in dark brown enamel, and round each foot is a band with a row of groups of three short strokes above it.
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