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What is color pottery botanical pattern?

Botanical motifs refer to motifs that mimic the forms of plants. There are mainly leaf pattern, petal pattern, tree pattern, grain pattern and so on. The pottery unearthed in the Hemudu culture is decorated with four-leaf and branch-and-leaf patterns, both of which are more realistic, indicating that the ancestors were familiar with the image of plants. Half-slope type colored pottery on the plant pattern is relatively small, only to see the fragments of similar to the wheat or branches of the two cases, for the natural growth of plants. Miaodigou type colored pottery on the plant motifs have similar to the scroll petal flower pattern of spinning flower pattern, usually in the form of a continuous bipartite around the body, there are also leaf-shaped pattern. Dawenkou culture pottery on the plant pattern, some like leaves, some like rice, and some like flower petals.