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later kind of lustre, some of it on blue glaze; varieties of graffito ware, one piece
having graffito decoration inside and applied reliefs outside; and pottery with boldly
painted designs in manganese; besides the ubiquitous ware with leaf green or peacock-
green glaze with or without relief ornaments.

Some glass found on the sites was mainly of the Samarra kind; and a few pieces of
Chinese porcelain included a coarse yellowish white ware also found at Samarra, a
celadon of Yü-yao type and probably of ninth century date, a finer celadon and ying-
ch'ing porcelain, both perhaps tenth century.

Another feature of the finds here were the large numbers of unglazed water vessels.
Many of these were richly decorated with moulded reliefs, and several moulds for the
making of them were found with them. Evidently there was an important manufacture
of these articles in the neighbourhood.

PANJĀB

With the exception of a few glazed fragments, perhaps foreign importations, found
at Kahnuwān, and some obviously foreign wares which appeared on other sites, the
Panjāb pottery is unglazed.

It consists chiefly of red or reddish-buff ware, and it is decorated in various ways,
e.g. by painting in black, by scratching, by applied reliefs, by bands of white slip.
Sometimes the surface is dressed with white or with black slip, or powdered with mica.
Sometimes the whole or parts of it are roughed.

The glazed fragments found at Kahnuwān were painted in blue, or in blue and black,
or with white designs on a black-dressed body.

Another group comprises a black ware which is sometimes finely polished. The
decoration is cut, moulded or incised; and in some cases it is moulded with strong
reliefs which include figures.

A third type is a greyish ware with curiously roughened surface.

These three wares seem to be of local make. They include figures of deities and of
animals such as the elephant, camel, &c.; and moulds for making figures and other
objects were found on several sites—Bahūr A, Bahūr B, Kukrānī, Sabzpind, Rathapind,
and Amrāwālī Ālī.

There is little to indicate the date of their manufacture. The foreign wares, which
were found here and there, included Chinese blue and white porcelain of fifteenth century
date, Persian blue and white of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and modern
Japanese porcelain. Little or nothing can be deduced from such occasional interpositions
and we are left to form our impressions from the general character of the wares them-
selves. Some of these are rough and archaic in appearance, and others show advanced
technique. They were probably made over an extended period; but it is doubtful if
any of them are older than the thirteenth century.