or cutting designs into the clay with a sharp tool or a fine wire loop is usually a lineal type of decoration INLAY or "Mishima" - is the continuation of the above process After the incisions are cut into the clay they are filled with a thick slip of a contrasting colored clay When partially dried, the excess is scraped off flush with the surface
literally 'cutting': any surface carving with gouge, v tool etc If a carving is just incised, it would not have involved grounding out
If an object is incised with a design, the design is carefully cut into the surface of the object with a sharp instrument. After the surface is polished, a design is incised or painted. a set of chairs incised with Grecian scrolls. to cut a pattern, word etc into something, using a sharp instrument (inciser, from incisus, past participle of incidere )