EXPLANATION OF PLATE 12 



Fui. I. Vessel for slip decoration. Red body covered with brown glaze. The upper 

 side of the vessel has an orifice to which was fitted a plug pierced with a 

 small hole, and the spout is supplied with a quill. The vessel is shaped for 

 grasping in the hand. Being filled with clay slip about the consistence of 

 thick cream, the stopper was inserted and the flow of the slip regulated by 

 the opening and closing of the orifice by the thumb. By this means designs 

 were applied to pottery, often complicated, and producing pleasing effects. 

 A specimen of the work may be seen on Plate 4, fig. 5. Cat. No. 96597. 



Fig. 2. Vessel for slip decoration. Red body, thin brown glaze. 



Fig. 3. Vessel for slip decoration. Red body, brown glaze. Wings at sides of l)ody. 



Fig. 4. Vessel for slip decoration. Cream-colored body; splotches of brown glaze. 

 This vessel has two orifices in the top for convenience of the slip decorator. 

 Cat. No. 96598. 



Fig. 5. Vessel for slip decoration. Cream-colored body; splotches of brown glaze. 

 One orifice; four holes for quills at the spout. 



