Piece 1732 is a small, deep, round-bellied cup with a torn and uneven rim. Its bare, unglazed wall is a near-black charcoal, coarse and matte, studded here and there with small dark protruding nodules and scattered pale grog-like specks. The uneven rim and softly lopsided body point to hand-forming rather than the wheel; no throwing rings or trimmed foot are visible.
Are those white stones part of the piece? No — the pale pebbles are a photo prop filling the cup; the piece itself is the dark, knobbled clay vessel. Piece 1732 of 10,000, listed at $17.32.
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