The balloon-shaped lip has a fine net pattern and an open bowl with an enrolled margin.
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Its best-known pattern, cobalt net, first appeared in 1949 . The design is based on a blue net pattern that was painted on raised lines cast into the porcelain dinnerware pieces of Catherine the Great.
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These were the first of Ms . Kusama's " infinity net " paintings, whose all-over, intricately wrought net pattern, like the ubiquitous polka dots that became her other signature motif, had appeared in her earliest drawings.