Pottery In Harappan Culture

·         Though most of the Harappan pottery is plain yet a substantial part is treated with a red slip and black painted decoration.

·         They are uniformly sturdy and well baked.

·         They are chiefly wheel made pottery and out of plain and painted ware,the plain variety are more common.

·         The painted decorations consist of horizontal lines of varied thickness,leaf patterns,scales,chequers,latticework ,palm and peepal trees.

·         Birds,fishes and animals are also shown.

·         The pottery included pedestals,dishes,goblets,cylindrical vessels perforated all over and various varieties of bowls.

·         Pottery was glazed,polychrome,incised,perforated and knobbed.