Dark handbuilt ceramic cup with a blue-black mottled sheen band around its upper body, piece 1878 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

A dark handbuilt cup whose upper body catches light differently than the rest: a mottled band with a blue-black shimmer wraps below the rim, pale speckle drifting through it like frost on slate. It is sheen-adjacent rather than the registry’s pewter-luster look, so the band lives here in prose — three photos of a cup wearing a night sky at its shoulder.

Is the band metallic? It shimmers in the photos, but shimmer has many mothers — light, gloss, surface — and the page names none of them. Piece 1878 of 10,000, listed at $18.78.

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