Why does the cup feel like a beach? Four reviewed cups wear their clay bare and sandy: fine specks and grains sit visibly in the surface — white points, dark flecks, a texture that photographs dry and granular — while a glossy white glazed liner pours over the rim and fills the inside. The contrast is the signature: sand for the hand, glass for the mouth. The founding twins are 2096 and 2097 from the 2051–2100 range; 2103 carried the family into the next fifty, and 2108 added leaf impressions all over its sandy barrel.
What the grit actually is — sand, grog, or the clay’s own temper — is never asserted; the pages describe the texture as it photographs, following the same caution as sand-speckled (whose members show scattered dark speckle rather than an overall grain). Held at the 2026-07-12 batch-13 ruling with two members, approved in the batch-14 ruling the same day when the family doubled.
See it on real pieces
2096, 2097, 2103, 2108 — or browse the sand-grit listing.
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