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The Canterbury Tales

Introduction
Iona studied The Tales at school and has created a Visitor & Study Centre, similar to the one in old St Margaret’s Church, Canterbury - with its Knight right. Add-ons are cast from Iona’s hand-pressed moulds. The figure is The Wife of Bath, pilgrim Alyson who is a lay preacher and weaver, as painted in the right window. Author Geoffrey Chaucer c1343-1400 stands to the right. The frieze shows people featured in The Tales and Iona would like you to guess who they are!

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Hazle Ceramics
Canterbury Tales
Limited Painting of 20
on Melton Mowbray
With two add-ons

20th Anniversary 2010
Painting & Add-ons by Iona

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 Part of US Congress mural: The Clerk, Manciple, Sailor, Prioress & Nun pilgrims.

The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Of all 30 pilgrims who met by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and rode to Becket’s shrine, Alyson is most famous. A lively Prologue tells of mastery over her 5 late husbands. Her Tale is of a knight who must find “what women most desire”. The right answer “sovereignty” is from an old hag, on condition he marries her. The knight accepts her authority and she becomes a young, lovely and faithful wife.

 After Becket’s murder in 1170, caskets held bone or cloth relics. Above, typical Limoges Chasse with lavish enamel scenes of his death.

 Becket pilgrim badge.
Wife of Bath, Ellsmere manuscript circa 1405. 