Cottage Pottery

Khurja pottery is traditional Indian pottery work manufactured in Khurja of the Bulandshahar 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. It is listed at item 178 as "Khurja Pottery" of the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India with registration confirmed by the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks Khurja considered one of the oldest Pottery Centre’s, was established in the thirteenth century by families of Afghan Potters, who specialised in making glazed tiles and some amount of utility ware. It is a small town in the state of Uttar Pradesh. There are nearly 400 factories here, making ceramic items, such as sanitary goods, electrical goods, tableware and decorative ware. In the 1970’s the Government upgraded all the existing potteries and modernized the kilns. Today it is the largest produ...

The blue pottery of Jaipur is unique and hence of great interest in the past and even today.  It is very popular in the national and international market. Since the blue colour is dominant on the white background pottery therefore  it is known as blue pottery, otherwise various other colours like yellow green, maroon and black colours are also used in the  pottery of Jaipur Jaipur pottery is not made of clay but of ground felspar (burbura) mixed with gum or starch.  It can be wielded by hand only, not on the potter’s wheel and locally known as kamchini. The art appears to have originated in Delhi under the chief artist, by the Hindu Kumhar called Bhola.  It seems probable that its production arose from a desire to complete with the imported jars,  known as martabans, which came to Delhi all the way from the fort of that  name on the coast of Burma. one of the pupils of Bhola was induced to join the School of Art,  Jaipur...