{"title":"Zodiac","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSomething about a zodiac plate feels like it was always meant to be personal. Alfred Meakin of Tunstall, Staffordshire began making these calendar plates in the mid-1960s, and for well over a decade they found their way into kitchens across England and North America as a small annual tradition. Each year brought a new colour, brown, blue, red, green, but the same design every time. A rural farmstead at the centre, ringed by \"God Bless Our House Throughout\" and the year. All twelve zodiac signs illustrated clearly around the border, each one named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe pattern was hand engraved and applied under the glaze. That's why the figures are still so crisp. Alfred Meakin had been producing transferware in the Staffordshire potteries since 1875, and the quality holds up. These weren't decorative pieces people tucked in a cabinet. They hung in kitchens and got looked at every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEach pendant carries one sign only. The symbol, the illustration, the name beneath. Nothing else from the plate made it into the frame. Just that one figure, cut carefully and set in gold or silver, specific to the person wearing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThey make quietly perfect birthday gifts. Or just the right thing for anyone who has always felt a little claimed by their sign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBrowse the Zodiac collection and find yours.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"zodiac-2","title":"Zodiac Tombstone, Aquarius, Gold","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe figure kneels and pours. The water flows down in two rippled lines, the same two lines that form the symbol above her, the whole image answering itself top to bottom. AQUARIUS along the bottom strip, named clearly, as always. She takes up most of the frame, absorbed in what she's doing, not particularly concerned with being watched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThere is something quietly compelling about a sign whose symbol is water but whose element is air. The plate never tried to resolve that. It just drew the figure and let her pour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet in a hypoallergenic aluminum frame finished in gold, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. Comes with an 18\" gold chain. $44 CAD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art By Studio L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52843008164208,"sku":"Z 2 G","price":44.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/4956\/9648\/files\/Z_2_G.jpg?v=1776381411"},{"product_id":"zodiac-3","title":"Zodiac Tombstone, Pisces, Gold","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTwo fish, swimming in opposite directions, connected by the small bar that has always held them together. The Pisces symbol sits above them, the same image distilled to its simplest form, and PISCES runs along the bottom in white. The pair of them fill the brown ground well. There is a pleasing symmetry to it, the upper fish curving one way, the lower the other, the whole composition balanced without being rigid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePisces is the last sign of the zodiac. The one that contains a little of all the others, or so the old stories say. This one just looks like two fish going their own way while staying close. Which is also a kind of story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet in a hypoallergenic aluminum frame finished in gold, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. 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There isn't much room left over, and he doesn't seem to mind that at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOf the signs, Taurus is the one that tends to know exactly where it's going. The illustration has that quality. Unhurried, but definitely in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet in a hypoallergenic aluminum frame finished in gold, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. 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She stands out clearly, every detail of the illustration still crisp against it, exactly as engraved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet in a hypoallergenic aluminum frame finished in gold, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. Comes with an 18\" gold chain. $44 CAD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art By Studio L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53200720920944,"sku":"Z 9 G","price":44.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/4956\/9648\/files\/Z_9_G.jpg?v=1776381299"},{"product_id":"zodiac-11","title":"Zodiac Tombstone, Scorpio, Gold","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe symbol comes first, that sharp angular M with its upward sting, white against the warm brown ground. Below it the scorpion, detailed and still, tail pulled in close, every segment clear. 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