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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

Pottery

Pottery.

Notice the form, how simple and true to Nature, how suited for its special use.

Household Pottery (except the hookahs and surahis) is unglazed, and the demand is immense, since the Hindus have a religious prejudice against using an earthen vessel twice. Clay Idols are also thrown away every day after being worshipped.

"The Potter is an hereditary officer in every Indian village. India has undergone more religious and political revolutions than any other country in the world, yet there at his daily work has sat the potter, steadfast and unchangeable for 3,000 years, Macedonian, Mongol, Maratha, Portuguese, page 15 Dutch, English, French, and Dane, of no more account to him than the broken pot heads lying round his wheel."

The Beautiful Enamelled Pottery seen in the Punjab Court is a sumptuary, not a religious art.