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There are 11 objects for which Decoration contains → fading
14.9.62 9 red bands of approx. equal width, a couple fading on edges to yellow, red paint worn away towards centre of the piece probably from further bands. Background pale buff. Underside reserved
2003.7.16 Curved fragment with rim and stump of handle suggests it was a bowl or cup due to how it open it appears as a shape. The interior is painted entirely in black, with a hint of red (fading?) near the top. The exterior has two black bands, one on the rim and one below the rim which also covers the handle stump. Beneath the handle there is a strip of faded white paint, followed by a red/dark brown stripe, then the rest is white with a thin horizontal black line and possible a thicker vertical black line dividing the white decoration in half.
2006.12.42 Unclear due to damage and fading, but appears to be black painted design. Two parallel lines and some chevrons distinguishable
2008.7.123 Interior: reddish-brown wash. Exterior: greyish-black wash, fading to a reddish-brown band below the rim.
2008.7.45 Exterior: three parallel black horizontal lines on the bottom of the fragment, a squiggly irregular black lines on the side of the rim, and a black line following the exterior edge of the rim; rim: seven parallel short brown lines, all perpendicular to the rim; interior: reddish-brown glaze, darker near the rim and fading slightly down the fragment.
2008.9.20 Interior: greyish-black wash fading to a reddish-brown colour, leaving a small section of unfinished terracotta across one corner of fragment. Exterior: greyish-black wash with a narrow band of unfinished terracotta parallel to one edge, with 7 small dots overpainted in the same greayish black colour within it.
25.6.9 Black line on rim. Black painted decoration on reserved background, not enough for obvious design. Inside painted black, fading slightly to red.
27.3.4 Flat lip with two black bands. Three horizontal lines on handle. On body, from top to bottom, shoulder bare, black band, group of seven thin lines, five thicker bands coloured black but often fading into brick-red. Base reserved, slightly concave.
51.1.1 Glazed on the interior. Exterior: thick band on underside of rim and top of body; a figural and floral frieze, between a pair of thin bands. depict vertical 6-7 petalled palmettes, alternating between upright and inverted, joined by tendrils, and a silhouetted rearing lion, profile to right. Lower part of body glazed black, fading to brownish-orange; brownish-orange band overlapping from inside of foot to resting surface.
62.5.1 Decoration is dark (brownish-black fading to red) on a light ground. The interior is decorated with bands around the rim and in the bowl (with an ill-made join). The exterior is decorated with a band around the rim, brown fading to red on the exterior of the handle, and another band where the cup tapers to the base, beneath which six narrow bands in dilute glaze are evenly spaced to the foot, the exterior of which is red.
T.2012.II.26 No visible decoration on the inside or outside, though on the base part there is a slight fade to the design, which could simply be put down to fading of pigment over time.
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