The moment a cooling glaze breaks into thousands of fine cracks. Olive-bronze veins fork and rejoin across a softly lit ivory ground like the surface of old porcelain.

• Crackle-glaze pattern: olive-bronze veins, dense in places, hairline in others
• Ivory ground: soft and luminous
• Hand-tufted in Jodhpur: flat, even veining that reads as drawn
• Holds its own: beside gilt, velvet and lacquer
• Best placed: beneath a Georgian cornice or a concrete ceiling