The elephant at the center and the vine surrounding it were not painted with a brush but are a pattern made to surface by scraping off the clay. After the shape of the bowl was formed in reddish clay, it was coated with white clay, which was then scraped off. In order to make the pattern stand out, a brown glaze was poured over the scraped-off parts with a green glaze added at several points and then the entire bowl was covered in a slightly yellowish transparent glaze.