Solids

Patanazzi Family (Urbino)
Wine Cooler
ca. 1580-1610
maiolica
(included in the Waddesdon Bequest)
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Artist
Martyrdom of St Ursula and her Virgins
17th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Meissen Manufactory (Dresden)
Miniature Head of Emperor Vitellius
ca. 1710-20
stoneware
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Roman Anton Boos
Hercules supporting the Earth for Atlas
ca. 1779
terracotta
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Casali e Calegari (Pesaro)
Food Warmer
ca. 1780-90
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

William De Morgan
Oil Jug
ca. 1888-90
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Domenico Trentacoste
Portrait of actress Emma Gramatica
1900
terracotta relief
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Rookwood Pottery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Vase
ca. 1910
glazed earthenware
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Fulper Pottery Company (Flemington, New Jersey)
Vase
ca. 1912
glazed earthenware
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Cesare Stea
Masque
1926
terracotta mounted on wooden base
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Margaret Ascencio
Vessel
ca. 1980
painted earthenware
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin

Juan Hamilton
Untitled
1981
lacquered stoneware
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Andrea Gill
Vase
1982
glazed earthenware
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Michael and Melvin Crocker
Elvis Jug
1992
glazed earthenware
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Patti Warashina
Achilles' Baptism in the River Styx
1996
glazed earthenware
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Simone Leigh
Jug
2022
stoneware
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

It is no gift I tender,

    A loan is all I can;

But do not scorn the lender;    

    Man gets no more from man.

Oh, mortal man may borrow

    What mortal man can lend;

And 'twill not end to-morrow,

    Though sure enough 'twill end. 

If death and time are stronger,

    A love may yet be strong;

The world will last for longer,

    But this will last for long.

– A.E. Housman (1936)