Chinese porcelain dish (left), 9th century, excavated in Iran, and a fritware dish made in Iran (right), 12th century (British Museum)Blue and white bowl with radial design, 13th century, Iran (Brooklyn Museum)Dish with cypress tree decoration, 1570–1575, İznik (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)
Fritware, also known as stone-paste, is a type of pottery in which frit (ground glass) is added to clay to reduce its fusion temperature. The mixture may include quartz or other siliceous material. An organic compound such as gum or glue may be added for binding. The resulting mixture can be fired at a lower temperature than clay alone. A glaze is then applied on the surface.
Fritware was invented to give a strong white body, which, combined with tin-glazing of the surface, allowed it to approximate the result of Chinese porcelain. Porcelain was not manufactured in the Islamic world until modern times, and most fine Islamic pottery was made of fritware. Frit was also a significant component in some early European porcelains.
A small manufacturing cluster of fritware exists around Jaipur, Rajasthan in India, where it is known as 'Blue Pottery' due its most popular glaze. The Blue Pottery of Jaipur technique may have arrived in India with the Mughals,[1] with production in Jaipur dating to at least as early as the 17th century.[2][3]
^"Colour me bright & blue". 20 February 2016.
^'Managing Dwindling Glaze Of Jaipur Blue Pottery: A Case Of Rajasthan, India' Mathur A.K, Shukla D. International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2014
^'Tryst with Tradition - Exploring Rajasthan Through the Alankar Museum' Jawahar Kala Kendra. Alankar Museum. 2011. Pg. 6
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