Why does the cup look like a rock? Five reviewed cups wear a thick pale crust built up over the whole exterior — knobbly, beaded, and encrusted, cracked and lumped like weathered stone, with dark bits and warm iron stains caught in the pale field — while the inside stays a smooth, glossy glazed pool. The contrast is the signature: a rough mineral shell for the hand, a clean liner for the drink. The five members arrived together across two June photo sessions: 2245 closes the June-08 group, and 2246, 2247, 2248, and 2249 carry the look through June-16 up to the frozen pilot’s edge.
What the crust is made of, and how it was built up, is never asserted — the pages describe only how it photographs, following the same caution as the crazed lichen crust and the bare sand grit; per the catalog’s condition discipline, its cracks and lumps are a surface look, never called flaking, failing, or a defect. Approved as a five-member family in the 2026-07-13 batch-16 ruling.
See it on real pieces
2245, 2246, 2247, 2248, 2249 — or browse the beaded-crust listing.
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