Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup dollhouse furniture Made of lacquered papier mache

Made of lacquered papier mache

and the number 55631 written in pencil in the upper left corner

receiving 75 cents per day worked and loosing $1 per idle day

though it is difficult to read the writing

Marbling on top of Marbling: Antique Ironstone Cup dollhouse furniture Made of lacquered papier macheThis 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