Sentence:  "It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and <WSD>blobs</WSD>, which can just be distinguished on the photographs." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.