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| Boston & Sandwich Glass Company Pomade with Cover ca. 1850 pressed glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Johann Friedrich Ardin Elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatinate ca. 1708 enamel on copper in frame of silver, brass and glass Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Anonymous American Manufacturer Vase (issued for the centennial of the American Revolution) 1876 pressed glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Charles Robert Ashbee Brooch ca. 1900 silver, enameled copper, amethyst Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Anonymous Chinese Carver Lidded Vase with Ring Handles ca. 1900-1950 rock crystal Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Giacomo Balla Futurist Flower ca. 1918-25 (reconstructed in 1968) painted wood Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Josef Hoffmann Fruit Bowl 1917 silver Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Louise Bourgeois The Blind leading the Blind 1947-49 painted wood Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Claire Falkenstein Set Structure with Cylinders 1944 stained and lacquered poplar wood Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Hans Arp (Jean Arp) Bust of an Elf 1949 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Barbara Hepworth Large and Small Forms 1963 slate on painted wood base Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Claes Oldenburg Soft Bathtub (Model) - Ghost Version 1966 painted canvas, plaster, foam, wood and metal Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Nash Rostrum with Bonks 1971 pine, ash, horse chestnut and birchwood Tate Modern, London |
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| Bronwyn Oliver Mantle 1985 painted fiberglass National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Carol Cohen White Fish II 1992 painted glass on wood base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Hal Metlitzky Cyclone 2012 exotic woods Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Carole Brendan Hetzel Basket no. 232 2005 plant fibers, steel, pigment Minneapolis Institute of Art |
What man is he that yearneth
For length unmeasured of days?
Folly mine eye discerneth
Encompassing all his ways.
For years over-running the measure
Shall change thee in evil wise:
Grief draweth nigh thee; and pleasure,
Behold, it is hid from thine eyes.
This to their wage have they
Which outlive their day.
And He that looseth from labour
Doth one with other befriend,
Whom bride nor bridesmen attend,
Song, nor sound of the tabor,
Death, that maketh an end.
Thy portion esteem I highest,
Who wast not ever begot;
Thine next, being born who diest
And straightway again art not.
With follies light as the feather
Doth Youth to man befall;
Then evils gather together,
There wants not one of them all –
Wrath, envy, discord, strife,
The sword that seeketh life.
And sealing the sum of trouble
Doth tottering Age draw nigh,
Whom friends and kinsfolk fly,
Age, upon whom redouble
All sorrows under the sky.
This man, as me, even so,
Have the evil days overtaken;
And like as a cape sea-shaken
With tempest at earth's last verges
And shock of all winds that blow,
His head the seas of woe,
The thunders of awful surges
Ruining overflow;
Blown from the fall of even,
Blown from the dayspring forth,
Blown from the noon in heaven,
Blown from night and the North.
– Sophocles, from Oedipus Coloneus, translated by A.E. Housman (before 1936)