Where 1951 wears veins, this cup wears the whole storm: black-brown gritty smears marble every inch of the white glaze, dusted with salt-pale flecks, while the rim and interior stay improbably clean and glossy. Three photos circle a handbuilt cylinder that reads like charcoal weather over snow — what the dark medium is, the pages never say.
Is it painted on? The swaths look smeared and dragged rather than brushed in strokes — an observation about motion, not method. Piece 1957 of 10,000, listed at $19.57.
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