Why do so many pale pieces look rusted? Seven reviewed pieces in the 2001–2050 range wear a granular, crumbly rust-red to plum-maroon crust over a pale body — sometimes webbing the crown (2001), sometimes capping it (2027), sometimes washing halfway down (2028), sometimes wrapping nearly the whole form in plates (2035), and once crazing a single flank patch (2036). 2004 and 2009 carry the quieter mottled versions that started the family.
What the crust is — slip, glaze, iron blooming in the fire — is never asserted; the pages record the look and leave the recipe to the kiln. The term is kept apart from rust-fissures, where rust shows through splits in a dark body’s crust: rust-veil sits on a pale one. Warm-bodied cousins like 2015 and 2034 stay in prose, outside the definition’s pale-body line. Approved in the 2026-07-12 batch-12 ruling after the family grew from three members to seven across a single batch.
See it on real pieces
2001, 2004, 2009, 2027, 2028, 2035, 2036 — or browse the rust-veil listing.
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