Poke a dots, but not really. That's what I first think when I look at this mug, then I'm trying to figure out if the blue ellipses are forming circles around the dots or if it's making more of a lattice. Of course, there's this obvious form factor here where I think the mug is trying to be a little more elegant that it needs to be. I mean that's an unrealistic tapering a the bottom, you only see that in magazines. Ok, I'm being over the top, but I feel like balancing the mug on that stand is asking for it to be tipped over at the slightest push. Let's make our way back to the geometric pattern that's covering this mug. It scales as the mug tapers which means someone put some thought into it. I think taken as a whole, the pattern reminds me of a crystal lattice, something simple like salt. Red atoms packed into unit cells delineated by the blue ellipses.

This mug is a Target mug and of course, produced in China. Not much else to say, other than this is the first curve bottom I've encountered in this journey.