Blue pottery, Vases
Royal Botanica: Handcrafted Jaipur Cylindrical Vase - 14 inches
- Jaipur blue pottery
- Jaipur
- Quartz
£175
A tall straight vase with a garden of green leaves and flowers running round it. The green comes from copper oxide and sits a little softer than the cobalt. Suitable for elaborate displays of foliage.
Where it lives
A striking statement in any living room, or anchoring tall in the middle of a dining table.
Details
- Made in
- Jaipur
- Craft
- Jaipur blue pottery, hand painted
- Materials
- Quartz, glass and fuller's earth, glazed
- Care
- 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.
