Introduction to Zenoz pottery
Among Zenoz handicrafts, ceramic making is more important than other industries and has a long history. Workshop pots are made in the same way as in the past. Their cheapness has reduced the production of workshops.
For a long time, potters in other areas also used white earthenware. On the other hand, due to the dependence of the quality of local arts on the facilities of the region, the people of Zenoz benefited from this quality, which was due to the limitations of life in the past, and skilled producers and artists emerged from them.
At a time when porcelain was scarce and the technology for making it was available in China, xenophobic soil was used because of its whiteness to make porcelain, and the dishes obtained from it bore similarities to Chinese. Pottery with native white soil of the region has a close connection with the history of pottery in Zenoz , because about sixty years ago, Master Abbas and Ahmad Qabchi moved from Zanuz to Tabriz and started this production method by establishing a pottery workshop in Tabriz’s Sorkhab neighborhood. They followed. Master Qabchi was born in 1298 AH in the house of Professor Mohammad Qabchi in the city of Zenoz and learned the art of pottery from his father with his brothers.
Professor Abbas Qabchi, with about 80 years of serious activity in making glazed pottery and training valuable students, has done a lot of services to preserve the native and national culture and art.
This eminent pottery master, who has been making beautiful pottery with white soil technique and turquoise blue glaze as well as transparent glaze for many years, was able to keep this ancient art alive and help promote it with the cooperation of the province’s pottery house and young art lovers.
Many students have benefited from the presence of Professor Abbas Qabchi, and today his name and memory are alive in the hearts and minds of all art lovers and artists of East Azerbaijan and Iran.
Qabachi Brothers Pottery Workshop is one of the few traditional pottery workshops in the region, which has been operating in the Sorkhab neighborhood of Tabriz since 1327.
The workshop, built by the late Professor Qabchi, includes pottery made of white clay (kaolin of the Zenoz region), which is made of clear turquoise glaze or clear glaze and is made by pottery wheels.
All the steps of making pottery, including preparing soil, flowers and glazes, as well as making, baking and glazing, are done by the Qabchi brothers.
The late Ustad Abbas and his late brother Ahmad Qabchi learned this art from their father, Ustad Mohammad Qabchi, in Zenoz , and in the many years of their activity, they taught it to eager students.
Master Qabchi is named with the following titles: Father of Pottery, White Soil, Valuable Reviver of White Soil Pottery, Inventor of Turquoise Pottery, Old Potter of Azerbaijan and Turquoise of Iranian Pottery.
Professor Abbas Qabchi Zenoz, one of the last survivors of the native masters of pottery, passed away on Monday, 10/21/2009, at the age of 90 in the city of Tabriz. In Zenoz , there were three workshops, one affiliated with the Handicrafts Organization and two private workshops, which are currently only one active workshop, and their products mainly include functional utensils such as plates, bowls, cups, saucers, water pitchers, teapots. , Sugar and….