A beautiful hand crafted piece inspired by the Tain Story - Queen Maeve and Ailli. This piece is accompanied by a printed story please find below a synopsis of this story. Approximately 30cm in height by 14cm width. Please note that as each piece is handmade your piece will be unique and as such there may be small variations in size and colour as per any special hand crafted item.This piece has been Raku fired the highly specialised Japanese technique to learn more about the amazing Raku firing click on Raku firing thehome page
Queen Maeve and Ailli
This piece is based on the Cattle raid of Cooley (Tain Bo Cualigne).The figures represent Queen Maeve with the brown bull of Cooley and her husband, Ailli King of Connacht, with his white bull of Connacht. The tale goes that Maeve and Aillis' possessions equalled each other in every aspect all but one Ailli had the white bull. Maeve determined to make up the deficit by gaining possession of the most famous bull in Ireland the brown bull of Cooley. When Maeve could not obtain the bull on loan she gathered an army to invade Ulster to take the bull by force. It is the central epic of the Ulster cycle.