One number before the millennium: a near-black handbuilt amphora, its two ears twisted rather than pulled smooth, its crown crumpled around the mouth, white marbled streaks rising through the charcoal like smoke in reverse. Third of the amphora family, and the darkest.
Why do the last pots grow handles and necks? The run saves its new shapes for the end — by 1999 the catalog is somewhere it had never been at 1951. Piece 1999 of 10,000, listed at $19.99.
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