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Rajasthani Blue Pottery_ A Seer In Blue, In The Pools Of White
The delicate, expensive and regal blue pottery, that blossomed only under royal patronage, Persian in its origin, reached India with the imperial Mughals, under its Persian name ‘Sangine’. Here its elaborate Persian elements came into interplay with the Hindu design repertoire, and burgeoned into a busy panorama of Islamic geometry and stylised flora. The magnificent blues of the sky and their many reflections in the seamlessness of oceans composed the sacred verses of this poetry in white. Its decline ran hand in hand with the decline of Mughals, which robbed it of its royal patronage. In these dark days, Rajputana under the reign of Raja Ram Singh ji (1835-1868), not only came to its rescue, but also installed it to the heights that are still unknown to many art forms.
Rajasthani Blue Pottery_ A Seer In Blue, In The Pools Of White
The delicate, expensive and regal blue pottery, that blossomed only under royal patronage, Persian in its origin, reached India with the imperial Mughals, under its Persian name ‘Sangine’. Here its elaborate Persian elements came into interplay with the Hindu design repertoire, and burgeoned into a busy panorama of Islamic geometry and stylised flora. The magnificent blues of the sky and their many reflections in the seamlessness of oceans composed the sacred verses of this poetry in white. Its decline ran hand in hand with the decline of Mughals, which robbed it of its royal patronage. In these dark days, Rajputana under the reign of Raja Ram Singh ji (1835-1868), not only came to its rescue, but also installed it to the heights that are still unknown to many art forms.