File:037-a-Potter-thumping-his-wet-Clay-q75-850x1176.jpg

Author	Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming (fl. 1902 - 1924). Adelaide Hanscom Leeson  (1875–1931)     Alternative names Adelaide Hanscom Description American photographer and painter Date of birth/death 25 November 1875  19 November 1931  Location of birth/death Coos Bay Pasadena Authority file : Q1875363 VIAF: 30870981 ISNI: 0000000108141105 ULAN: 500068197 LCCN: n81141882 Open Library: OL1597863A WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q1875363
Description	A Potter thumping his wet clay
Date	1905, 1912
Source/Photographer	Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward Fitzgerald: “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” (1905, 1912) [1]
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In the picture, a boy or young man sits on the floor with a pot or vase balanced on his left knee. He wears only a yellow cloth wrapped round his waist, leaving his back, arms, legs and feet bare.

XXXVI

think the Vessel, that with fugitive

Articulation answer’d, once did live,

And drink; and Ah! the passive Lip I kiss’d,

How many Kisses might it take—and give!

XXXVII

For I remember stopping by the way

To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:

And with its all-obliterated Tongue

It murmur’d—“Gently, Brother, gently, pray!”

XXXVIII

And has not such a Story from of Old

Down Man’s successive generations roll’d

Of such a clod of saturated Earth

Cast by the Maker into Human mould?