The run closes with a night sky: a wide, dark handbuilt cup whose walls carry small cobalt-toned glassy beads and white pin-dots scattered like stars — the macro shot leaves no doubt about the blue flecks, round and bright against the gritty brown-black ground. Piece 1899 ends the fifty-number sweep of the 1848–1899 range one shy of the unphotographed 1900.
Are the blue dots glaze? They’re glassy-looking beads in the photos — what they’re made of is precisely what the blue-flecks term never asserts. Piece 1899 of 10,000, listed at $18.99.
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