Solids

Ancient Greek Culture in Attica
Amphora with Foot Race
540 BC
glazed terracotta
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

Francisco Niculoso
Virgin and Child
ca. 1520-30
glazed ceramic tile
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

Anonymous Italian Potters
Plate with Winged Putto riding Sea Serpent
16th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Italian Potters
Dish with Bust of Warrior
16th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Tadolini Petronio
Allegorical Figure of Prudence
1767
painted terracotta
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Clodion
Young Woman carrying a Child
ca. 1790-1800
terracotta
Harvard Art Museums

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Bust of a Nymph
ca, 1865-70
terracotta
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Watcombe Pottery (Torquay)
Japonesque Pitcher
ca. 1880
partly-glazed terracotta
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

William De Morgan
Vase with Mythical Beast
ca. 1882-88
glazed earthenware
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Inkwell
ca. 1890-1900
glazed stoneware in bronze mount
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Agathon Léonard
Ewer
1898
glazed earthenware with gilt-bronze mounts
Art Institute of Chicago

Van Briggle Pottery Company (Colorado Springs)
Vase
ca. 1920-40
glazed earthenware
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Vanessa Bell
Cup and Saucer
ca. 1932
glazed earthenware
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Paul Schreckengost for Gem Clay Forming Company (Ohio)
Teapot
1938
glazed earthenware body with platinum fittings
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Klytie Pate
High Diving
ca. 1950
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Errol Barnes (pottery) and Joe Furlonger (painting)
Bowl
1995
earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,

    There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,

The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,

    And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.

There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart,

    And many to count are the stalwart and many the brave,

And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart,

    And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.

I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell

    The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern;

And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell

    And watch them depart on the way that they will not return.

But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan;

    And brushing your elbow unguessed at and not be told

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,

    The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. 

– A.E. Housman (1896)