Blue Pottery

Blue Pottery

The delicate, expensive and regal blue pottery, that blossomed only under royal patronage, Persian in its origin, reached India with the imperial Mughals, under its Persian name ‘Sangine’. Here its elaborate Persian elements came into interplay with the Hindu design repertoire, and burgeoned into a busy panorama of Islamic geometry and stylised flora. The magnificent blues of the sky and their many reflections in the seamlessness of oceans composed the sacred verses of this poetry in white. Its decline ran hand in hand with the decline of Mughals, which robbed it of its royal patronage. In these dark days, Rajputana under the reign of Raja Ram Singh ji (1835-1868), not only came to its rescue, but also installed it to the heights that are still unknown to many art forms. The royal Rajputana art amalgamated with ornate Islamic Persian designs, and gave birth to the magic that was named the ‘Blue pottery’ by the English. However the sun did not shine for long upon the fortunes of this royalty and once again it plunged into the shadows of anonymity, until in 1962, when Kripalsingh ji came to Jaipur, and blew a gust of fresh oxygen into the lungs of this dying craft, under the kind patronage of Maharani Gayatri Devi.The local availability and use of Quartz as raw material and the arid climatic conditions in which it is conceived, sets Jaipur Blue Pottery in contrast with all the other variants of blue pottery where clay serves as the principal medium, a uniqueness which has earned it the GI status in 2009.

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