Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup Lekythos 2 7/8" t x 3"

2 7/8" t x 3" in diameter

clearly 19th c

" I have seen a few different sets of these

It was noted by the seller as a memorial plaque

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup Lekythos 2 7/8" t x 3"This 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