Friday, April 17, 2026

Solids

Gregorio di Lorenzo
(Master of the Marble Madonnas)
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1460-70
stucco
Bode Museum, Berlin


Andrea della Robbia
St Ambrose
ca. 1490
glazed terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Anonymous Italian Artist
Dish with Death of Nadab and Abihu
16th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous French Artist after Odoardo Fialetti
Venus combing Cupid's Hair
ca. 1650
tin-glazed earthenware (faience)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacob Cressant
Portrait of silk merchant David van Mollem
1740
terracotta
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Roman Anton Boos
Hercules and the Erymanthean Boar
ca. 1779
terracotta
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Joseph-Charles Marin
Bacchante carrying Child
ca. 1780-95
terracotta
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous Italian Artist
Vase with Cover
18th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Staffordshire Potteries
Cachepot with Triton (detail)
19th century
glazed earthenware
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1870-75
terracotta
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Paul Gauguin
Vase
ca. 1887-88
painted stoneware
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
Panel of Six Tiles
ca. 1900
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Rookwood Pottery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Tile
ca. 1905
glazed earthenware
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Betty Woodman
Vase
ca. 1989-90
glazed and painted earthenware
Phoenix Art Museum

Virgil Ortiz
St Bartholomew
2014
painted terracotta
Denver Art Museum

Koen Taselaar
Le monde entier est un cactus (Totem #1)
2016
partly-glazed earthenware and wood
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Look not in my eyes, for fear
    They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
    And love it and be lost like me.
One the long nights through must lie
    Spent in star-defeated sighs,
But why should you as well as I
    Perish? gaze not in my eyes. 

– A.E. Housman (1896)