decorated pottery

collocation in English

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decorate
verb
uk
/ˈdek.ə.reɪt/us
/ˈdek.ər.eɪt/
to add something to an object or place, especially in order to make it ...
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pottery
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒt.ər.i/us
/ˈpɑː.t̬ɚ.i/
the activity or skill of making clay objects ...
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(Definition ofdecorateandpotteryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Supplies ofdecoratedpotteryto the home market are restricted almost entirely to export rejects.
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The broad effect will be to treble the amount ofdecoratedpotterypreviously available.
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The sale ofdecoratedpotteryon the home market is generally prohibited in order to promote exports.
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Supplies ofdecoratedpotteryto the home market are restricted almost entirely to export rejects.
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That includesdecoratedpottery, of which we are exploiting the lot without difficulty.
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The broad effect will be to treble the amount ofdecoratedpotterypreviously available.
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Supplies will therefore be easier and price control will shortly be removed fromdecoratedpottery.
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The quota ofdecoratedpotterywhich can be sold on the home market has now been settled and licences have been issued to manufacturers.
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A small quantity ofdecoratedpotterywhich is imperfect and, therefore, unsuitable for export is sold on the home market.
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We have been obliged to ensure that all the output ofdecoratedpotteryshould go to the export market.
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We could not buy anydecoratedpottery.
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Thedecoratedpotteryof this period often has red paint in the form of stripes, sometimes in large, wide herringbone-like decorations.
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Excavation has uncovered numerous statuettes of deities and highlydecoratedpottery.
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It consists in a pair ofdecoratedpotterydrums, each with different size.
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Finds include bronze sculptures and terra cotta statues of human and animal figures, coins, funerary urns, household utensils, jewelry, highlydecoratedpottery, and spears.
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Prehispanic peoples madedecoratedpottery, wove cotton cloth, and in some places buried their dead in large urns.
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Their tools included rectangular adzes and red slippeddecoratedpottery.
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Other types of images, like those portrayed in monumental styledecoratedpottery, display more natural figures, mostly birds.
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Their unique and highlydecoratedpotteryhas enabled archaeologists to recognize their sites and to determine their places of origin.
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Crude but elaboratelydecoratedpotteryappears.
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