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Jaipur Quartz-Paste Blue Pottery

India

Clay-free ground-quartz, fuller's earth, and gum-tragacanth glazed ceramics painted in cobalt oxide and turquoise in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

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Jaipur Blue Pottery uses zero potter's clay; instead, powdered quartz stone, raw glass, katira gum, saji soda, and Multani mitti are kneaded into dough, pressed into plaster moulds, and coated with white quartz-flour engobe. 1

Brushwork in cobalt blue, copper turquoise, and chrome yellow is sealed beneath a low-fired lead-free borosilicate glaze at 800 degrees Celsius. 1

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