Museums can be so straight at first sight. But it doesn’t take too long looking at these characters to realise that the one in a dress has rather impressive sideburns, mutton chops even. Subverting and celebrating at the same time, Matt Smith used a traditional ceramic form to mark the equalisation of marriage in 2013. Men can marry men and men can appear on ceramics wearing whatever they like. In a case surrounded by polished ceramics that only portray a heteronormative view of the world, this object is a delightfully queer reinterpretation of historic ceramic pots.