History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c15.s1.86

c15.s1.86

The pottery articles of the Stone Age Culture of Brahmagiri are hand-made, have a coarse, grey fabric, sometimes with a thin slip of the same clay. Articles of the earlier phase are painted and incised. The painted sherds have a red or buff slip. Those with red slip are burnished and salt-glazed. The painted decorations are applied after firing. The pigment employed was ochre There appears no resemblance, technically or artistically, to Indus Valley ceramics. Articles of later phase are generally dull mottled grey in colour, coarse and micaceous in texture, and often indifferently baked (Figs. 21 and 22). Copper and bronze rods found in this level indicate some sort of knowledge of their working, but also scarcity of the metal.