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There are 29 objects for which Decoration contains → places
14.9.109 Exterior and interior black glazed, turning to red in places (especially around complete handle). Underside of foot reserved with one black band.
14.9.2 Painted black, fired in places to red. Relief bands round neck.
14.9.53 Brown, in places very pale, on buff. Scale pattern above three broad bands.
2006.12.19 Dots of black paint heavily worn with small bits of black paint in other places, suggesting a heavily worn decoration
26.12.17 Inside is black except for a reserved rim and a medallion at the center with a dancing woman inside and with bands around the edge. Two handles, black on top and reserved underneath. Side A is a charioteer mounting quadriga, beside horses is a lyre player and at handles is a satyr pursuing woman. Side B is similar, but woman and satyr have changed places. Dots and branches with dots along in the field. Under each handle is a single ivy leaf. Black band, then black stem to foot. Top of foot is black but side is reserved as is the base which is flat except for a central concave black circle.
26.2.15 black band over top of lip; interior: reserved band at top of lip, rest of interior glazed black (fired brown in places); exterior: lip and handle zone reserved with broad band between; glazed on wall below and at handle root;
26.2.16 interior: concentric wide and narrow glazed (fired red) bands; exterior: glazed (fired reddish in places); reserved underside of bowl with inscription.
34.8.12 The vase is black, both on the inside and the outside, with the exception of few, red lines. A sloping rim allows the lid to sit over the aperture. There is a reserved line on topside of the body, a red, carved circle and a groove around. There are also two, concentric carvings, one in the middle of the body's upper surface and the other one at its side. At the level where the body is divided in two areas there is a reserved line, while another one is apparent at the point where the body is narrower, above the point where it connects with the stem. The latter is divided in two areas by two, plastic, thin, red rings. Below, there are vertical ridges, one third the way down, wider towards the upper surface of the foot, whose larger part they cover with their moulded, tongue-shaped terminations. There is also a carved circle, surrounding these terminations. The foot is grooved and reserved in places. The surface underneath is irregularly painted black, with the central part reserved.
37.7.1 On mouth, very broad band between two thin bands. Red oval pattern around neck with three red bands below Siren with outspread wings to left; on back a duck. Rosettes in field. Incision. Black, red in places. Purple for face and most of Siren, middle, part of wings, spots on upper part of wings.
45.6.1 Pale buff ground. Inside is black and red in places. Main design: five women with long plaited hair dancing in a ring, holding wreaths between them. In field are large rosettes with concentric circles at centre and round objects with horizontal incisions between bands of vertical incisions. At base are elongated vertical lines and the foot is coloured red. Five bands on base.
45.6.34 Patchy brownish-black glaze fired red in places.
48.12.2 Black decoration. Interior: uneven band round rim; ring in base with ill-made join. Exterior: uneven band at rim; beneath it is a wavy line (decoration ceases temporarily above handles); paint thinner in places. Black band where the body tapers to the base, and another band around the foot. Base reserved.
48.12.9 The jug is decorated with black glaze, turning to red in places, on the upper half but is otherwise reserved.
49.12.1 Black glazed all over, but fired red in places, especially on the underside.
58.2.6 Brown clay(?), blackened greatly in places. No pattern can be distinguished.
71.12.1 The interior and the exterior of the mouth as well as the handle glazed. On the exterior, the black is fired brown. At base of neck, ridge in place of drip-ring painted purple. Shoulder: ivy leaves on each side of central purple line(six above, seven below); on body five inverted opening lotus flowers with central petals white. Above them row of white dots. Lower half of body and exterior of the foot glazed black (turning red in places). Resting surface and the underside of the foot reserved.
79.1.13 Black glaze all over, redish in places probably due to firing.
REDMG:1935.87.16 Handles painted black on the top and reserved underneath. Reserved thin line inside lip and on outer side and bottom of footring. Ring foot is black although underneath is ruddled, except for black centre and one small black ring. Streaky glaze in places.
REDMG:1953.25.20 Black glazed (but fired red in places) except for reserved underside including resting surface. Shoulder: six narrow red bands between two pairs of narrow white bands. On widest part of body, two red bands between white lines, with an intervening white line. Broad red band on exterior of foot.
REDMG:1953.25.32 Interior and handles black, as are the lower part of the body, stem, and upper surface of foot. Reserved band around rim, interrupted on either side by handles. Reserved vertical band in each handle zone; on each side a female head, profile to the left, between two white vertical bands, each crowned by a circle near the top of the band; red diagonal surface of foot; reserved underside including resting surface. Each female wears a stephane and a sakkos from which emerges a bundle of hair, also tied with a white ribbon; earring comprised of triangular element (missing from side B) beneath hoop; beaded necklace The figure on side B has a fleur-de-lys in the lower left field. The surface is ruddled on both heads and the exterior of the foot; added yellow, in places ‘gilded’ with yellow, for details of hair ornament, jewelry, and fleur-de-lys.
REDMG:1953.25.50 Black glaze, fired red in places. Red band on lower part of lip; traces of white palmette, with tendrils, on shoulder; red line between two white lines at shoulder; red band just below middle of body. Underside reserved.
REDMG:1953.25.59 Black glaze fired red in places; ghost of a palmette from the bottom of which emerge two volutes, in added white on shoulder at front; red band between two white lines on shoulder, just below handle attachment; red band on widest part of body; underside reserved except some black glaze overlapping from the sides.
REDMG:1953.25.61 Glaze fired red in places, now changed to brown, through secondary burning.
REDMG:1964.1603.1 Traces of a black wash left in places
REDMG:1964.1604.1 Orange-red slip, grey in places, especially on the interior.
REDMG:1964.1605.1 Red wash all over, slightly lighter in places. Wire cutting marks on base.
REDMG:1964.1628 Dipped (black glaze). Interior: black glaze with red band on rim. Exterior: black (fired red in places) on upper 2/3, but reserved below.
REDMG:1964.1630 Traces of glaze indicate that the entire surface was glazed black, but fired red in places, especially towards the bottom.
TEMP.2003.7.8 Rim of a plate. Exterior, plate body plain, underside of rim black. Interior black over brown paint worn through in places. The rim itself is serated on this side.
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