Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff With a custom stand that

With a custom stand that suits it perfectly

and what a charmer of a letter opener

and was happy to find another

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff With a custom stand thatThis 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