Hippocamp Greek culture in South Italy 3rd century BC terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Hippocampus : A sea-horse having two fore-feet, and the body ending in a dolphin's or fish's tail; represented as drawing the car of Neptune and other sea-deities. (Oxford English Dictionary) Examples : Fair silver-footed Thetis . . . guiding from rocks her chariot's hyppocamps (William Browne, 1613) ; Hearty as hippocampus (Thomas Hood, 1840)
Agnolo di Polo Madonna and Child ca. 1520 painted terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art (gift of William Randolph Hearst) |
Gervais Delabarre Virgin of Sorrows ca. 1630 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Charles Hoyau Madonna and Child ca. 1635 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Melchiorre Cafà Fragment of study for Martyrdom of St Eustace ca. 1660 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Jean-Baptiste Tuby Diana with stag and dog 1687 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Filippo della Valle Blessed Nicolò Albergati 1740-43 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
circle of Giuseppe Sanmartino Veiled Christ ca. 1752 terracotta Los Angles County Museum of Art (gift of William Randolph Hearst) |
Gaetano Gandolfi Mary Magdalene ca. 1770 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Claude-Michel Clodion Bacchic scene 1773 terracotta relief Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Jean-Guillaume Moitte Scene from the Arch of Titus in Rome ca. 1791 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Augustin Pajou Psyche abandoned 1796 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Augustin-Félix Fortin Eros ca. 1806 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Albert-Ernest Carrier Belleuse Woman playing the viola da gamba ca. 1880-97 glazed ceramic Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
I am grateful to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for making photographs of the sculpture collection available.