The portrait holds the line

Cheekbones and brow were pressed into the clay before firing — depth is structural, never decorative.

Warpaint and facial markings are laid on in mineral black over the burnished ground — bichrome, deliberate, never ornamental for its own sake.

That arching form repeats as a structural motif across the catalog — a single silhouette binding vessel, mark, and margin together.

Each vessel records an individual — a specific nose, a real scar — so the archive reads as faces, not as a catalogue of anonymous roles.