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Ceramicists in India work at the intersection of material craft and contemporary design — wheel-throwing and hand-building functional and sculptural ware, formulating glazes using Seger formula calculations, and firing in electric, gas, or wood-fire kilns across cone temperatures from Cone 06 (999°C) to Cone 10 (1285°C). The field spans studio pottery in the tradition of Ray Meeker's Auroville Pottery Town and Andretta Pottery in Himachal Pradesh; art-school trained practitioners from MSU Baroda's ceramics department and NID Ahmedabad; and a fast-growing commercial-design crossover where studios supply custom ceramic tableware to five-star restaurants (ITC Hotels, Taj, Oberoi), boutique hospitality brands, and D2C homeware labels. Devi Prasad's legacy of craft-as-education, the Indian Ceramics Triennale based in Jaipur, and practitioners like Sandeep Manchekar and Falguni Bhatt have built a credible studio pottery ecosystem that now intersects with Instagram-driven demand for artisanal homewares. Entry is typically via a 4-year BFA/BDes with ceramics specialisation (MSU Baroda is the apex institution), followed by 1–3 years of studio apprenticeship under a working potter.