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Fig. 5

From: Surface treatment of red painted and slipped wares in the middle Yangtze River valley of Late Neolithic China: multi-analytical case analysis

Fig. 5

Microscopic examination of RPW01 (a exterior surface with brush strokes indicated by rectangles); RPW02 (b enlarged area showing the whitish body color underneath the cracked paint), RSW01 (c exterior surface with no clear brush strokes; d the unslipped interior surface showing a slightly reddish color). The cross-section of RPW02 (e) shows a red paint layer of about 50-μm thick; by contrast, no clear slip layer is noticed on the cross-section of RSW01 (f)

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