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Medium size Black Pottery Cup is made with simple design, elegant look and black shine on surface. Useful for decoration as well as daily use too, this is perfect piece of art to own for personal use or to gift to someone, who is fond of artistic products. Perfectly shaped to hold the balance and comes with medium size handle.
India is famous for unique type of clay pottery known for its dark shiny body with engraved silver patterns, known as Black Pottery.
The pottery are made with locally available fine textured clay. The clay moulds are prepared in different shapes and are backed in kiln. Later these clay wares are washed with powdered vegetable matter and are rubbed with mustard oil. They are decorated with floral and geometric patterned grooves using sharp twigs. They are smoke fired with rice husks in enclosed kilns which gives its unique shiny black surface. They are again rubbed with oil and baked in kiln. The grooves on clay wares are then filled with silvery powder of Zinc and Mercury, washed with water and polished again.
The black clay pottery studied by historians due to its resemble with the Northern Black Polished Ware pottery of urban Iron Age culture of Indian Subcontinent.