Here the peppering finds a direction. A satin warm-white barrel cup, throwing rings circling it, carries a rust-brown streak that runs down the wall — granular, standing a little proud of the pale glaze, gathered from the same iron color that only freckled 2156. Fine speckle still dusts the ground around it. About a third of the way up from the foot, an irregular gap opens clean through the wall, ringed by a halo of dark speckled particles, the interior showing faintly through it. The base shows “2157” handwritten in brown. It is one of the five cups that put surface/rust-streak into the registry.
Where did the freckles go? They lined up — the scattered iron of the cup before it pulled into a single rust-brown run down this wall, the family’s founding streak.
And the opening low on the wall? An irregular gap through the wall itself, about a third of the way up from the foot, ringed by dark speckle, the interior just visible through it. Piece 2157 of 10,000, listed at $21.57.
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