The incised decoration is added when the clay is still wet by tracing a design with a blunt-ended tool.
The pottery showed a wide variety of incised and impressed decoration.
It was probably made from pine wood having an incised decoration on the shaft, which is not recognizable in the photo.
Elaborate incised decorations were known to be used in a number of Chinese lacquerware during the Han Dynasty.
There is some incised decoration, but a large part of the surface was normally left plain.
In the Swiss pile dwellings, the incised decoration was sometimes inlaid with tin foil.
Pots with a new type of incised decoration appeared about 1200 and lasted for about 200 years.
These were burnished, painted and red washed with some incised decorations.
Pottery included burnished, painted and red washed shards, some with incised decoration or lattice patterns.
These huge untapered columns are sometimes ornamented with incised decorations.