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Consider the following pairs:

1. Blue pottery : Rajasthan

2. Cheriyal : Telangana

3. Saora : Assam

4. Phad : Rajasthan

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

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Phad is one of the folk paintings styles of Rajasthan, which generally depicts the royal and secular themes. These paintings are narrative in nature and are painted on flat ground. The painting is done on rough handspun, hand woven cloth, after it is prepared by applying a thin layer of starch on it and mixing it with the pigments to soften their tones. The outline is worked in contrasting colours on the prepared background.
Cheriyal scroll painting is a stylized version of Nakashi art, rich in the local motifs peculiar to Telangana. They are, at present, made only in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The scrolls are painted in a narrative format, much like a film roll or a comic strip, depicting stories from the Indian mythology and intimately tied to the shorter stories from the Puranas and epics. Earlier, these paintings were prevalent across Andhra, as also various other parts of the country, albeit flavoured with their distinct styles and other local peculiarities dictated by the local customs and traditions. In the same way, Cheriyal scrolls must have been popular across Telangana in earlier times, though with the advent of television, cinemas and computers it has been fenced into its last outpost, the Cheriyal town.
Saora is the name of the tribe and their art. Saora is an ancient Munda tribe from Southern Odisha and north coastal Andhra Pradesh. They are also found in the hills of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Known for their extraordinary architectural skills, Saora tribal paintings look exactly the same on the mud walls of their houses and on paper. Saora painting is done in black and white or mud brown and white. When mud brown decorative border poles are used as frames of the paintings, the drawings are done only in black and white. Small stick-like figures, dots and patches of black can serve as great narrative elements in Saora paintings (like in Warli paintings of Maharashtra) and long epic-length narratives of festivities can find depictions in a single Saora mud wall.
Blue pottery is widely recognized as a traditional craft of Jaipur, though it is Turko-Persian in origin. The name ‘blue pottery’ comes from the eye-catching cobalt blue dye used to colour the pottery. It is one of many Eurasian types of blue and white pottery, and related in the shapes and decoration to Islamic pottery and, more distantly, Chinese pottery. It is relatively unusual as a type of quality or luxury Indian pottery, most Indian types being functional and though often highly decorated, relatively low prestige wares.
Jaipur blue pottery, made out of a similar frit material to Egyptian faience, is glazed and low-fired. No clay is used. The ‘dough’ for the pottery is prepared by mixing quartz stone powder, powdered glass, Multani Mitti (Fuller’s Earth), borax, gum and water. Another source cites Katira Gond powder (a gum) and saaji (soda bicarbonate) as ingredients.

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