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Second generationof the family
The tradition
Bankura terracotta
- Based in
- Panchmura, West Bengal
- Maker's mark
- Hand-burnished surface; the elongated Panchmura silhouette.
In her words, our record
The village of Panchmura gave India one of its most recognised craft forms — the long-necked Bankura horse, now a national emblem of Indian handicraft. Sita learned the form from her mother, one of the few women to throw and build at the wheel in a male-dominated potters' lane.
Her work keeps the austere, geometric grace of the tradition while introducing her own folk figures: village mothers, musicians, paired animals. Each is burnished by hand before firing to bring up that distinctive deep terracotta sheen.
She splits her year between her own collector work and teaching the form to girls in the village school.
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