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1317447001
Description
Cup, 'khwet'. The interior has a plain covering of deep red 'pigeon-blood' lacquer (where this is cracked the woven basketry is visible). The background colour of the exterior is, unusually, brown while the yun engraved decoration is in yellow, red and - again unusually - blue (this is only visible today in the interior of the body of the horses). The main register of decoration is set between smaller bands, which include concentric yellow lines, engraved with a compass. These imitate strips of bare bamboo set into the lacquer surface, a style that is assumed to be earlier than the yun technique. The main register sports yun decoration using the 'figures and buildings', 'let taik let kya', design, which is made up of a repeating pattern (here shown four times) of a woman in a building with, in front, a man on horseback. On the base are further rows of concentric circles, imitation basketry and geometric pattern.
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