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There are 21 objects for which Decoration contains → cream
14.9.43 Buff clay. The interior surface is black and the exterior surface is cream with dull black painted design. There is a band at the rim and the pattern on the body below is of buds and spiral leaves.
2008.7.145 Interior: cream wash with 4 parallel horizontal lines overpainted in greyish-black creating 2 bands of pattern, one twice the width of the other. The narrower band contains 5 semi-circles, and the narrower a more irregular pattern of intersecting curved and straight lines. Exterior: Cream wash with narrow, evenly-spaced parallel horizontal lines overpainted in greyish-black. Patches of brownish glaze remain.
2008.7.62 Interior: black wash. Exterior: thin parallel lines faintly visible at top and bottom of fragment. Between these, patches of overpainting in cream, black and brown remain.
2008.7.81 Interior: Reddish-brown wash, grey parallel horizontal stripes overpainted. Exterior: Cream wash, Reddish-brown parallel horizontal stripes of varying thicknesses overpainted, 2 thick and 3 thin towards one end and one thin at other. Line of small dots of same colour parallel to this.
2008.7.82 Interior: Greyish-black wash. Exterior: Cream wash. Fairly thick parallel horizontal bands towards one end overpainted in Reddish-brown and grey. Below this, the tips of horizontal triangular shapes overpainted in grey forming zig-zag pattern.
2008.7.85 Interior: black wash. Exterior: black wash with thick, horizontal, parallel stripes overpainted. One dark red, with a thinner cream stripe parallel above and below.
2008.7.86 Interior: cream wash with stripe of grey overpainted towards one end. Exterior: Cream wash with two widely-spaced parallel bands overpainted in greyish-black. Traces of another diagonal line of a similar colour and thickness joining these.
2008.7.87 Interior: greyish-black wash. Exterior: cream wash with horizontal parallel lines overpainted in brownish-red. 1 thick and 2 thin lines towards top. Curved pattern overpainted below in same colour.
2008.7.88 Interior: greyish-black wash. Exterior: Traces of cream wash with thin vertical light grey stripes overpainted above and below lip.
22.3.41 Painted exterior decoration in dark brown and dark red on a cream ground. Below a broad brown band is a red band, between two white lines, and then another brown band. The lower body is decorated with a series of vertical brown lines, between pairs of red and brown bands, all between two curvilinear patterns each comprised of two concentric circles around a single dot. This entire motif is enclosed in a lens-shaped space, between dark brown patches, underlined by more red bands between white lines. The flat bottom is decorated with a curvilinear diamond crossing a cross, both in dark brown, inscribed in a dark brown circle.
25.9.4 Body, shoulder and neck white ground. Cup mouth is black. Handle black on the back and cream ground underneath. On shoulder are two rows of radiating bars. Body design is an ivy-spray, with circles of dots and heart shaped leaves, between bands of grille pattern, at front only and all in black. Three wet-incised lines below. Side and base of foot heavily ruddled. Footring reserved.
26.2.40 Underside, black, turning to red within the double foot-ring; resting surface reserved. Upper side, winged feline (with incisions and applied red markings in the shape of inverted commas on soulder and down foreleg) to right with left paw raised above what may be the tail of a sitting bird or siren, red and incisions on field ornaments. Cream slip. Bands of red and white superimposed on black.
26.2.54 cream slip; interior unslipped; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of sphinx (back and haunches with added red remaining) to right; incised rosette with red centre as filling ornament; below, two black bands above parts of five vertical tongues.
26.2.57 cream slip; on top of plate, two tendrils with buds separated by three horizontal bars; on rim, two narrow bands and tips of rays; edge of plate black; reserved on underside ; exterior of handle black;
26.2.66 Exterior cream ground with two golden-brown bands running lengthwise, between two golden-brown lines. The interior shows two white bands running lengthwise on a brownish-black ground. One of the white bands is dashed, while the other is complete.
27.3.2 Pale cream ground, paint brownish-black. In handle zone vertical bars, rest horizontal bands. Inside brown for black.
29.11.2 Main zone of body cream ground. Mouth black inside and out, lip reserved. Handle black underneath reserved. Shoulder is decorated with two rows of rays or buds (the lower row is slanted to the right). The body is decorated with a symposium scene: a man reclines and a seated woman plays the lyre, framed by two seated women and branches. Above the panel are two irregular rows of dots. Below the main scene are two uneven black bands, then the bottom of the body and top of the foot are black. Side and base of foot reserved.
34.8.6 Lip reserved. Inside is black. Single curved handle is black on top and reserved underneath. Shoulder has bars at base of neck with lotus buds at edge. Main zone of body is drawn on cream ground. Part of the way around the body is a double row of black dots. Charioteer driving four (?) horses to right at speed with a person (possibly Athena ?)running beside in the background. Below are black bands. Foot steps down twice and the lower step is black. Base is reserved and concave in the center.
39.9.6 Ground varies from cream to buff. Inside is coloured black. The mouth is red. Two handles are placed vertically on top of shoulder and under each is a goose (?) From top to bottom there is a band with the shoulder design below. Pictures are of a stag and a panther facing right (A) and panther and a goat (?) facing each other (B). Separating this from the main design are two rows of dots between bands. Main zone: Griffin-bird between two panthers (A) and two panthers facing a pattern of a palmette complex(B). Various incised rosettes and dots in field. Below main zone is seven bands and a red base.
48.12.10 Interior of the mouth and exterior of the handle black. Neck is reserved, as is the underside of the handle. Shoulder has two rows of rays radiating from neck. Body is cream ground and, from top to bottom, has two parallel horizontal black lines, meander 'key' pattern, three rows of grille and black line. In centre are three horizontal palmettes with a line, four row grille and black band. The pattern only covers the front of the pot and the back is left cream. Below this are three incised bands. Top of foot black. Reserved band on the foot. Underside reserved.
TEMP.2003.7.6 On the exterior is a light brown line, followed by a cream line, and another brown one, followed by a lighter brown one and brown dots on a cream background. Then another light brown line and more cream until a dark brown circular shape (unclear because the fragment ends here). On the other side the background is dark brown, almost black, with white lines, almost like petals, with light brown dots in them.
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