Black Carved Ceramic Cup With Notched Rim
- Angular faceted relief carving wrapping the entire body
- Deep chiseled channels packed with parallel scored striations
- Crenellated rim of small repeated rectangular teeth
Type: hand-formed ceramic vessel
Dimensions: approx 3.7 in (9.5 cm) tall; mouth approx 3.7 to 3.9 in (9.5 to 10 cm) across
Materials: unglazed earthenware-type clay, fired at high temperature
Finish / color: matte charcoal black with dark brown undertone
The piece sits comfortably in the palm of a hand, compact and substantial rather than tall and slender. Its monochrome, heavily worked surface pairs nicely with smoother ceramics and plain natural materials.
Display it on an open shelf where raking light can catch the flat facets.
Use it as a small cup or as a pot for dried stems and single cuttings.
Let it stand alone as a sculptural object on a desk or mantel.
Clean with a dry, soft cloth or a barely damp sponge, then dry immediately. Avoid prolonged soaking and harsh detergents, which can dull an unglazed surface. Store padded or separated from harder pieces to protect the carved edges.
Because it is hand-built, small variations in rim height and facet shape are part of the piece.
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A closer look
The object is a hand-formed ceramic vessel, a small open-topped cylindrical cup or decorative pot, built from clay that has been fired at high temperature. Its material body is a dense, unglazed earthenware-type clay, left completely free of any glaze or surface coating, which gives the surface a raw, naturally porous character and makes the wall highly breathable. The body color is a deep charcoal black with a warm, dark brown undertone; the tone is uniform overall, with very fine, sparse mineral flecks of lighter grey and off-white scattered across the face of the clay, most visible in the recessed areas where loose firing particles have collected. Because there is no glaze, the finish is entirely matte, absorbing light rather than reflecting it, with only faint, low-sheen micro-highlights along the raised carved edges.
The form is a gently tapering cylinder, wider at the mouth than at the foot, with a height that slightly exceeds its base width. Measured against the ruler placed alongside it, the vessel stands approximately 9.5 centimeters tall, rising from its base at the zero mark to just under the 10-centimeter line at the highest point of the rim. Viewed from directly above, the mouth diameter measures roughly 9.5 to 10 centimeters across, giving the piece a nearly one-to-one height-to-mouth-width proportion that reads as compact and substantial rather than tall and slender. The interior cavity is deep and circular, occupying nearly the full height of the piece, with an inner wall that appears smooth compared to the heavily worked exterior, and faint horizontal throwing or tooling rings visible deep inside.
The exterior surface is the dominant design feature: a continuous band of sculptural, angular relief carving wraps all the way around the body. The pattern is built from large, flat-sided geometric facets — irregular pentagons and quadrilaterals — separated by deep, chiseled channels filled with dense groups of parallel striations, like bundles of scored lines pressed into the clay at varied angles. These striated bands run diagonally, intersecting at sharp vertices, creating a shattered-crystal or faceted-rock effect that evokes brutalist architecture, raw mineral geology, and abstract modernist relief sculpture. The facets themselves are broad and planar, catching the light as soft, flat grey-black planes, while the deep grooves between them hold shadow, producing strong tonal contrast from light to dark within a single monochrome surface. The carving is deep enough to give the wall visible relief thickness, and the transitions between planes are deliberately blunt and irregular, retaining the marks of hand tools rather than any machine-perfect finish.
The rim is finished with a distinctive notched or crenellated edge: a continuous ring of small, repeated rectangular teeth or castellations runs around the entire lip, echoing the segmented, modular logic of the body pattern. The rim is not perfectly level or uniform — one side sits slightly higher and carries a more pronounced jagged profile than the other, a visible trace of the hand-building process. At the base, the vessel terminates in a thick, roughly circular foot whose circumference is broken by the lower ends of the carved facets
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