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Jar - jar

jar

  • Object:

    Jar

  • Place of origin:

    Jaipur, India (Rajasthan, made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1880 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    fritware with underglaze decoration

  • Museum number:

    IS.3-1964

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case 16, shelf 4

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This jar and cover was made in the Jeypore School of Art. The school, in Jaipur, produced pottery in the late 19th century after one of the pupils of Bhola, who was a chief artist of Delhi fritware, introduced the technique. As the pieces were made of a mixture of feldspar and starch they could not be thrown on a wheel but were either raised by hand or shaped in a mould. Vessels of this kind were known locally as 'martaban' jars, after the fort on the coast of Burma through which they were imported into India/ They were first copied in Delhi and later at Jaipur, where their designs were heavily influenced by contemporary European taste.

Physical description

The jar has a swelling body rising out of a flared foot and a short neck. The painted decoration on the body of the jar has white floral sprays delineated in blue against a turquoise ground set within cusped arches framed in rectangular compartments. Below, there are two bands of acanthus leaf motifs and, above, two further bands of inverted acanthus leaf motifs separated by a band of petals.

Place of Origin

Jaipur, India (Rajasthan, made)

Date

ca. 1880 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

fritware with underglaze decoration

Dimensions

Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 10.2 in, Width: 25.6 cm

Object history note

Jaipur School of Art produced pottery in the late 19th century after one of the pupils of Bhola, who was a chief artist of Delhi fritware, introduced the technique. As the pieces were made of a mixture of feldspar and starch they could not be thrown on a wheel but were either raised by hand or in a mould. Pickle jars or martabans, as they were locally known, owing to the fort on the coast of Burma through which they were imported into India, were first copied in Delhi and later at Jaipur, where they were decorated in response to European taste. See Watt, Sir George,Indian Art at Delhi: being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-03, Calcutta, n.d, p.90.

Descriptive line

Earthenware jar and cover, Jaipur, about 1880

Materials

Glaze; Ceramic; Starch; Feldspar

Techniques

Moulded

Subjects depicted

Floral patterns

Categories

Containers; Ceramics; Earthenware

Collection code

SSEA

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