An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c38.110

v2.c38.110

Lal Qila has considerably increased our knowledge about the technique and variety of painted motifs on the OCW. They appear to have been finely executed with bold hand, the chief characteristic being an emphasis on the rim, neck and shoulder as the area for decoration. The most significant painting is on the shoulder of pot—an elongated humped bull having prominent crescentic horns, muscular thighs and slightly raised straight tail. Another interesting motif on the same pot is on the either side of the bull—a serrated leafy motif with a spiral at the end. A design like a row of ribbon knots and some floral motifs desrves mention. The other designs include thick parallel bands on the shoulders, horizontal band within two wavy lines, thick vertical, horizontal and in a few cases wavy bands, loops joined by a pair of horizontal bands on the shoulder, oblique parallel lines, slanting and vertical lines emerging from horizontal bands, crescentic comb pattern, hatched triangles between two sets of horizontal parallel lines, square with diagonals, circles, semicircles, check pattern, etc.