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Traditional Nizamabad black pottery from Uttar Pradesh, India. Painted under-eave roof-tile, Sri Lanka, 5th century. Potteries on display in Dilli Haat market, New Delhi, India. Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art.
However, the continuity of pottery styles may be explained by the fact that pottery was generally made by indigenous craftsmen even after the Indo-Aryan migration. [23] According to Chakrabarti (1968) and other scholars, the origins of the subsistence patterns (e.g. rice use) and most other characteristics of the Painted Grey Ware culture are ...
Kulala is a Hindu caste who traditionally pursued pottery trade and farming as professions and are commonly found in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and southern and western parts of Tamil Nadu.
Khurja pottery is traditional Indian pottery work manufactured in Khurja of the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh state, India. Khurja pottery has been protected under the Geographical indication (GI) of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.
Folk and tribal art in India takes on different manifestations through varied media such as pottery, painting, metalwork, [81] paper-art, weaving and designing of objects such as jewellery and toys. These are not just aesthetic objects but in fact have an important significance in people's lives and are tied to their beliefs and rituals.
The earliest history of pottery production in the Fertile Crescent starts the Pottery Neolithic and can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period (7000–6500 BC), the Halaf period (6500–5500 BC), the Ubaid period (5500–4000 BC), and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). By about 5000 BC pottery-making was becoming widespread ...
The pottery style of Madras School of Art, which originated in Chinglepet, was the first high-temperature glazed pottery that had a semi-porcelain-like clay body and an opaque glaze was created with cobalt and iron colouring to imitate Chineseware, never before produced in India. J.
The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," [1] [2] extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh. [3] [4] Artefacts of this culture show similarities with both the Late Harappan culture and the Vedic culture.