Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff Definitely primitive looking

Definitely primitive looking

and was happy to find another

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

Plus the faces one these two are pretty terrific

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup J.S. Schaff Definitely primitive lookingThis 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