Near-cylindrical ceramic cup scored with dense fern-like lines, an olive-tan pinholed band at the rim, piece 1958 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

A near-cylindrical handbuilt cup wearing a drawing instead of a picture: dense scored lines sweep around the whole wall in leaning parallel runs, fine as pressed ferns, with an olive-tan band of pinholes ringing the rim above them. The strokes sit deep enough to catch shadow, so the surface reads as linework first and clay second.

What are the lines? Scored strokes worked over the whole wall in fern-like runs; what cut them stays the maker’s business. Piece 1958 of 10,000, listed at $19.58.

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