Blue pottery, Vases
The Indigo Lattice Urn: Regal Heritage Reimagined
- Jaipur blue pottery
- Jaipur
- Quartz
£150
A shouldered urn in light cobalt and white, the lattice drawn in cobalt and filled in by hand. Blue pottery is best with dried stems. Fresh flowers can go in for an evening, with the water tipped out after.
Where it lives
The mantelpiece.
Details
- Made in
- Jaipur
- Craft
- Jaipur blue pottery, hand painted
- Materials
- Quartz, glass and fuller's earth, glazed
- Care
- Dried stems, or fresh ones for an evening only. Can be washed in warm soapy water, or wiped with a damp cloth. It chips if it is knocked.
How it is made
Jaipur blue pottery is made without clay. Ground quartz, glass and fuller's earth are kneaded into a dough, pressed into moulds, painted by hand in cobalt and copper oxides and fired once at a low heat. The craft came to Jaipur by way of Persia and the Mughal court, and the city has made it for a century and a half.
Hand made, so no two are identical. Small differences in the print, the dye and the finish are a record of the process and not a fault.
