Rishtan ceramics

Also known as Риштон кулоллиги · ishkor glaze plates

Potters of Rishtan, in the Fergana valley, throw broad plates and bowls from local red clay and paint them with an alkaline ash glaze that fires to deep turquoise, cobalt and green. The big serving plate, called a lagan, can be a metre across.

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How to play

Study the plate in the frame: a small foot, a sloping wall and a wide rim.
Drag across each row of spinning clay to set its width.
Press Glaze, choose a colour and fill the four bands from the centre outward.
Press Check when the plate and its glaze match.

Rules at a glance

Eight rows of clay, each from one to twelve steps wide.
Seventy points for the shape and thirty for the glaze bands.
Three stars need a nearly exact plate with its colours in order.

About the tradition

Potters of the Fergana valley have made glazed ware at Rishtan for centuries, drawing flowers and leaves from nature in blue-green glaze made from the ash of desert plants. Workshops pass the craft from parent to child, and the glaze was revived in the 1970s.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Persia, Caucasus and Central Asia.

Credits

Craft model: World Heritage Games (original)
Photo: UzbekistanWikiEditor, CC BY 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons
Text: CC BY-SA 4.0, World Heritage Games.

Sources

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lagan2024.jpg

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