A hand-painted handleless ceramic tumbler with pale teardrop motifs scattered across a deep black ground, each ruled with fine dark stripes and dotted in mustard, clustering loosely into rosettes with the flat graphic logic of a block print. The interior is glazed the same warm cream as the motifs, so the piece reads as two different objects depending on where you are standing: black and graphic on the shelf, pale and quiet in the hand. It is the dark one in a collection of light ones, which is the whole reason to own it.
