{"id":227832,"date":"2025-10-27T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227832\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:19:06","slug":"sculptors-widow-unveils-repaired-josiah-wedgwood-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227832\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor&#8217;s widow unveils repaired Josiah Wedgwood statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/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":227833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}