What makes the stripes? Two cups in pieces 1848–1899 wear broad, wavy bands of pale buff and near-black wrapping the full body — a zebra look rather than a single dipped line. On 1888 the buff zones are sandy and crusted, split by an open crack from the rim; on 1890 cream and black alternate all the way down while the interior goes whitewash-pale.
The photos show the pattern, not the process — whether the bands are layered clays, slips, or something else is never asserted. Single-band, two-tone pieces are a different look and stay in prose: the “dipped horizon” of 1868, the dripping grey shoulder of 1880, and the cracked cream band of 1889 are each described on their own pages, untagged.
See it on real pieces
1888, 1890 — or browse the banded listing.
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