Skip main navigation
The Brooklyn Museum

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Cerridwen




signature image

Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Heritage Floor; detail), 1974–79. Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster, 48 x 48 x 48 ft. (14.6 x 14.6 x 14.6 m). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. Photograph by Jook Leung Photography

Cerridwen
Mythic, worshipped in Wales, exact dates uncertain

Cerridwen, a magician from Welsh mythology, brewed a potion of knowledge for her ugly son, Morfran, but the kitchen boy who stirred it accidentally ingested it instead. He gained all the knowledge in the world and fled from her. As she pursued him, they both changed into various forms, she eventually becoming a hen and eating him in the form of a grain. Cerridwen became pregnant with Morfran and when he was born, she threw him in the sea. He survived to become the famous poet Taliesin.

Related Place Setting

Ishtar

Related Heritage Floor Entries

Amat-Mamu
Anahita
Anath
Aphrodite
Arinitti
Asherah
Ashtoreth
Astarte
Baranamtarra
Blodeuwedd
Cybele

Encheduanna
Hannahanna
Hathor
Iltani
Inanna
Isis
Kubaba
Shibtu
Shub-Ad of Ur
Tanith

Last updated January 29, 2007.
About The Dinner Party Wiki

SEARCH