A plaster-white cup — the wall pitted like old fresco — circled by a thin brown brushed horizon line, with scribbled hooks and slashes dropping below it. A narrow grey rim band scallops along the top, red speckles caught in its edge.
Fresco or pottery? The pitted white ground makes the brushwork read like wall-painting — but it’s a cup, with a rim and an inside and a price that says its name: piece 1939 of 10,000, listed at $19.39.
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