Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff to my eye at least

to my eye at least lending a subtle tension

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

Definitely primitive looking

I'd probably put it on the desk to use it as a paperweight

and was happy to find another

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff to my eye at leastThis antique cup, ironstone I believe, is actually one of my favorite recent finds, to my mind constituting "art without intent" for the manner in which crazing to the ceramic has produced this fine network of rust colored lines that run between and among the blue marbled lines patterning the cup, evocative of veins and capillaries inside a body, or fault lines in the earth. That pattern of shaky blue lines is pretty fantastic to begin with and just