Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c24.2

c24.2

The Sinhalese potters (baḍahēlayō) are found all over the country in every village affording the necessary clay, but often aggregated in greater numbers in places where an especially good supply of suitable clay is available. Thence the potter carries his pots for sale to more remote districts in huge pingo loads. Nowadays a good deal of pottery is taken in carts along the cart roads; in this way the fine red pots made by a settlement of Tamils at Nikapata near Haputale travel down the road to Balaṅgoḍa, and the Keḷani pots with their white incised patterns come up to Ratnapura and Kēgalla and even Kandy. Some pottery is also imported from Southern India.