By covering parts of the surface of the vase patterns of various shapes could be produced at will, fore-runners, as it were, of abstract art. Occasionally there is painted decoration too. Patterns were diversified; the curvilinear appears as well as the rectilinear. Towards the end of the period a new painting technique was being practised which heralds the style of the following, Middle Minoan period, the light-on-dark style, with patterns in a thick white or yellowish paint on the dark-painted ground.
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M. However, it is always wise to use no more materials in a clay body than are necessary, and if one fine natural stoneware clay can be found which will perform well without the additions of any other material so much the better.
By covering parts of the surface of the vase patterns of various shapes could be produced at will, fore-runners, as it were, of abstract art. Occasionally there is painted decoration too. Patterns were diversified; the curvilinear appears as well as the rectilinear. Towards the end of the period a new painting technique was being practised which heralds the style of the following, Middle Minoan period, the light-on-dark style, with patterns in a thick white or yellowish paint on the dark-painted ground.