Halloween - coffins at BCB

Julian Stair’s two burial sarcophagi for children make a suitably ghoulish photo for Halloween today. They are a feature of the current British Ceramic Biennial exhibition at the former Spode factory in Stoke.

Made completely of black ceramic, his range of 'cinerary jars', as he calls them, are not just for artistic effect. Julian seems to think they are an alternative to wooden coffins.  (Out of picture is a huge, black, upright, man-sized urn, in which he is proposing one would place a corpse...).
Hmm.

Links:  Julian Stair / British Ceramics Biennial