Dark handbuilt ceramic cup with dusty plum-mauve washes and peach patches near its base, piece 1885 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

Dusk in a cup: a dark handbuilt wall washed with dusty plum and mauve, torn at the rim with a pinkish crust behind, and warmed near the base by peach patches that read like bare ground showing through evening. One photo carries the whole palette — the run’s most muted colorwork.

Why do the colors look dusty? The washes sit thin and matte, letting the dark body breathe through — a softness the photo shows without saying what made it. Piece 1885 of 10,000, listed at $18.85.

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