Cream ceramic cup with dry brown scratch-like brush marks and a glossy greige rim band, piece 1929 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

Dry-brush weather in the abstract-cup family: thin brown strokes skip across this cream cup’s matte wall — one long arc, a scatter of dashes — under a glossy greige rim band that pours a little way down the shoulder. The marks are so dry they read like scratches until the second photo shows their brushy edges. A trimmed foot ring closes the case for the wheel.

Scratched or brushed? Brushed, on the evidence — the strokes feather where a scratch would cut. Piece 1929 of 10,000, listed at $19.29.

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