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What are the color patterns of painted pottery decoration?

The colored pottery decoration is mainly in black color, red is rare, and even less of both colors are used. Some of the objects with white pottery, which is an important feature of the Miao Di Gou type colored pottery. Painted mainly in the belly, but also painted in the folding edge of the basin mouth edge, decorative patterns are birds, frogs, pendant arcs, petals, flowers and leaves geometric pattern, grid pattern, polka dots and circling hooks and so on, the most representative of the floral motifs.

Hougang-type pottery was found in Hougang, Anyang, Henan Province, mainly red-topped bowls, converging mouth and deep-bellied round-bottomed bowls, small-mouthed long-necked pots, tripods, etc., with a variety of decorative patterns to various linear-based, mostly in red, black is rare.