The famous Blue Pottery of India is associated with which city?
- A.Jaipur
- B.Khurja
- C.Bishnupur
- D.Thanjavur
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Jaipur. Blue Pottery is a Turko Persian technique that reached Rajasthan through Mughal and Kashmiri craftsmen and was encouraged by the rulers of Jaipur. Its most striking feature is that it uses no clay at all. The dough is made of quartz powder, powdered glass, fuller earth, borax and gum, and the ware is glazed in cobalt blue with touches of copper green, then fired at a comparatively low temperature, which makes it light, non porous and fragile.
Option B is wrong because Khurja in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh makes a different glazed ceramic, usually in floral patterns on a cream ground. Option C is wrong because Bishnupur in West Bengal is known for terracotta temples and panels. Option D is wrong because Thanjavur is known for bronzes, paintings and the art plate, not for blue glazed pottery.
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Practice Questions
View allPainted Grey Ware is generally associated with which period of Indian history?
- A.Mature Harappan period
- B.Later Vedic period
- C.Mauryan period
- D.Gupta period
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Painted Grey Ware is a fine, thin, wheel made grey pottery decorated with simple black lines, dots and spirals, dated roughly between 1100 and 600 BCE.
Read the full explanation →Northern Black Polished Ware is the characteristic pottery of which phase?
- A.The Neolithic villages of Mehrgarh
- B.The Chalcolithic cultures of the Deccan
- C.The Mahajanapadas and the Mauryan empire
- D.The Delhi Sultanate
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Northern Black Polished Ware, usually shortened to NBPW, is a very fine clay pottery with a glossy, almost mirror like surface in steel grey to jet black.
Read the full explanation →Ochre Coloured Pottery has mainly been found in which region of India?
- A.Upper Ganga and Yamuna doab
- B.Kerala coast
- C.Brahmaputra valley
- D.Konkan coast
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Ochre Coloured Pottery, usually abbreviated to OCP, is a worn, ill fired, orange to ochre pottery whose colour rubs off on the fingers because the surface has been damaged by water.
Read the full explanation →Which statement best describes the pottery of the mature Harappan civilisation?
- A.Handmade grey ware painted in white
- B.Wheel made red ware with designs painted in black
- C.Glazed blue ware made of quartz powder
- D.Unpainted glossy black deluxe ware
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Mature Harappan potters used the fast wheel and fired their pots well, producing a sturdy red ware on which they painted in black over a red slip.
Read the full explanation →Rouletted Ware found at Arikamedu is evidence of which kind of contact?
- A.Trade with the Roman world
- B.Trade with Central Asia over the Silk Route
- C.Migration from the Tibetan plateau
- D.Contact with the Harappan cities
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Rouletted Ware is a wheel turned dish with concentric rows of small impressed dots on the inner surface, made by holding a toothed tool against the turning pot.
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