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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 387.

coarse gray ware; although as we might expect, there was evidence of some overlapping and of mutual influence, one upon the other, between the two kinds of pottery.
   The reddish-buff ware was in general well levigated and fairly hard in texture; and its firing seemed to have been better regulated and controlled than was that of the coarse gray pottery.  In color it varied from a light buff to a deep brownish-red; and its surfaces were almost always highly burnished.  As previously noted^[[,]] [[strikethrough]] (page 384), [[/strikethrough]] many though by no means all of the vessels belonging to this type of ware bore designs in one or more colors.  Little or no consisten^[[cy|]]was evident, however, as to which kinds of vessels bore painted patterns and which did not; or whether certain designs were confined to particular shapes.
      Patterns were formed entirely of geometrical elements; none of those found at Wa Cha Hsieh even remotely suggested a naturalistic origin. Usually they were curvilinear, and several different patterns could be distinguished, most of them also occurring at the type-site of Yang Shao (found by Dr. J. G. Andersson), on the other or southern side of the Yellow River and a little farther to the east.  They included among them dots-and-triangles, hollow-sided triangles, ellipses, discs, lattices, and curving lines, sometimes single and again double and parallel.  They appeared to have been applied with some sort of brush, possibly nothing more than a twig frayed out at the end.
     After shaping and drying the vessels of this class of ware and burnishing their outer surfaces with "polishers"---possibly, on the analogy of the objects employed by existing primitive peoples, mere smooth pebbles, specimens of which occurred in abundance on the site---the first step, when further decoration was desired, was the application of a slip, in red, white, pale gray, orange, or light yellow.  The two latter colors, for some reason not apparent, were restricted to the lower [[part of?]]

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