Icons of Art

The works most people can already picture, and a few they should be able to: Hokusai's wave and his red Fuji, Vermeer's milkmaid pouring at a window in Delft, the sunflowers Van Gogh laid flat on a table in Paris a year before Arles, Matisse cutting shapes out of painted paper at the end of his life, and a marble Aphrodite ploughed up on Melos in 1820.

They cover about two thousand years and every technique the collection owns — panel, canvas, woodblock, engraving, photograph, cut paper, stone. What they have in common is narrower than fame. They hold up at the scale of a table, at arm's length, on a Monday morning.

Each listing names the work, its date, the institution that holds it and its rights status. Fine porcelain, 10 oz, dishwasher and microwave safe.

Selected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.