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Kripal Singh Shekhawat (1922–2008)

Kala Bhavana-trained muralist and ceramicist who resurrected clay-free Jaipur quartz Blue Pottery during the 1960s.

Jaipur ceramicist painting cobalt and turquoise botanical motifs on a quartz-paste jar

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Jaipur ceramicist painting cobalt and turquoise botanical motifs on a quartz-paste jar
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Educated under Nandalal Bose and Benode Behari Mukherjee at Santiniketan and in Far Eastern brush disciplines at Tokyo University of the Arts, Kripal Singh Shekhawat assumed leadership of Jaipur's Sawai Ram Singh Shilp Kala Mandir when fewer than half a dozen ageing quartz-potters survived. 1

Reformulating the fragile ground-quartz, raw glaze-glass, multani mitti, and katira-gum body while introducing cobalt-and-turquoise peacocks, camel caravans, and twenty-five new vessel profiles, he received the National Award (1967), Padma Shri (1974), and Shilp Guru (2002). 1

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Jaipur Quartz-Paste Blue Pottery
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Kripal Singh Shekhawat and the Revival of Jaipur Blue PotteryLalit Kala Akademi / Crafts Council of India, 2005—
"Kripal Singh Shekhawat (1922–2008)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/kripal-singh-shekhawat · CC BY-SA 4.0.