Rough granite-textured handbuilt ceramic cup with uneven pinched crown, piece 1959 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

A boulder that opened into a cup: rough brown granite-textured wall, a crown pinched uneven, and inside — under a glossy dark ring pooled just below the rim — a gritty floor swirled with pale streaks, one or two faint blue flecks and a single yellow speck hiding in it. The handbuilt evidence is everywhere the fingers went.

Do the blue flecks earn a tag? No — per the catalog’s rule, faint small features stay in prose; 1899’s clear macro is what a tagged fleck looks like. Piece 1959 of 10,000, listed at $19.59.

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