Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff Plus the faces one these

Plus the faces one these two are pretty terrific

and what a charmer of a letter opener

with the phrase: "this moon isn't made of green cheese

complete with cut paper hands

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

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff Plus the faces one theseThis 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