Stout steel rods.
The big box home improvement stores have copper-clad steel electrical grounding rods for cheap and you wouldn't need to paint them, as they turn a dark brown quickly and, eventually, a nice verdigris. You'd need to improvise some sort of flanged clamp, though, to keep the pots vertical. Maybe three little galvanized "L" brackets held to the rod with a band (hose) clamp?
That sounds good.
An easy single-rod method would be to use all-thread (threaded steel or brass rod) available at almost any hardware store. A length of that, fastened to the pot through its central hole with two nuts and two fender or standard flat washers, would be a quick solution. I don't know enough about plants to know whether additional drain holes would be needed. Perhaps the multi-prong lock washers would provide some trickle drainage ?
I've had 100% success...
I've had 100% success drilling holes in heavy vitreous clay pots using a masonry bit in about 1/2" of water.
Steel rods will eventually rust away and crumble but it might take a long time, especially if you use plants with low water needs. I like the copper-clad rod idea a lot, though.
Worked on it today
I drilled the pot with a 1/4in masonry bit, then used 3/8in metal tubing and 1/4in threaded rod that I got from a local metal supply place for the post. I put it all together with some washers and nuts and mounted on a 4x12 piece of lumber that I put a countersink in on the other side.
Good work!
It looks almost as if it's levitating, which is a bit strange, but perhaps when the install is complete it won't seem so.
I guess the relationship between the television and framed print in the photo of the room attached to the OP isn't working for me. The big black rectangle needs to go.
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