Jabalpur
— marble cliffs the river cut white.
Not only on a wall.
“A city in central Madhya Pradesh, on the upper Narmada. Twenty-five kilometres downstream the river squeezes between cliffs of soft white and pale grey marble at Bhedaghat, then drops about thirty metres at Dhuandhar Falls — the Smoke Cascade, named for the spray it throws up at the bend. Boats run the gorge by day. The cliffs cool from cream to silver when the moon comes up. from the studio
Jabalpur, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Jabalpur is the third-largest city of Madhya Pradesh, with a population of about 1.4 million, lying on the upper Narmada River in central India. The city sits at roughly 410 metres above sea level on the edge of the Mahakoshal plateau, about halfway between Mumbai and Kolkata by rail. It served as a princely capital of the Gond kingdom from the 13th century and later as headquarters of the British Saugor and Nerbudda Territories. Internationally it is best known for the Marble Rocks gorge at Bhedaghat, about 25 kilometres southwest of the city centre.
At Bhedaghat the Narmada has cut a three-kilometre gorge through cliffs of crystalline magnesium limestone and dolomite that read cream-white in noon light and pale blue under moonlight. The walls rise about 30 metres above the river and are quarried in small workshops at the village edge, where craftsmen carve marble figurines and lamps still sold along the riverside. Captain J. Forsyth described the gorge in his 1871 book The Highlands of Central India as one of the finest natural sights in the subcontinent. Full-moon boat rides through the gorge run from October to June.
The Narmada is the fifth-longest river in India, running about 1,312 kilometres from the Maikal Range west to the Gulf of Khambhat — one of the few major Indian rivers that flows east-to-west. Just below the Marble Rocks at Dhuandhar Falls the river narrows and drops about 30 metres in a single broken sheet whose spray gives the falls their name (dhuan, "smoke"). Hindu tradition holds the river so sacred that pilgrims complete the Narmada Parikrama, a walking circumambulation of its full length that can take more than two years on foot.