Folia Historica 31. (Budapest, 2016)

I. KÖSZÖNTJÜK A 80 ÉVES T. NÉMETH ANNAMÁRIÁT - Ridovics Anna: III. Károly pozsonyi koronázási érmei nyomán készített delfti fajansz tányérok

the mark of the workshop "De Grieksche A" from Delft. It was used during the time of the owner Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, and later during his widow between 1701/1703-1722. Charles VI was crowned as a Holy Roman Emperor in 1711 at Frankfurt. So the pair of dishes could bee produced later in the workshop "De Grieksche A".

Dishes after the coronation medals of the Hungarian king, Charles III.

Charles VI was crowned as the Hungarian King, Charles III at Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1712. The prepicture for the dishes we can find on a coronation medal prepared for this event. The two sided silver coin (one exemplar is in the Hungarian National Museum, inv. n. HNM N. III.1326) was designed by the well-known Nürnberger medailleur, Georg Wilhelm Vestner (1677-1740). The portrait on the coin was expressed first time on the imperial coronation medals at Frankfurt in 1711. The painter of the dish copied Vestner's mark possibly without knowlidge of its meaning. There are two other types of fayance dishes made in Delft workshops were designed after other coronation tokens. One is the product of the same workshop "De Grieksche A". The only blue painted decoration is more simple. In the center of the dish the Hungarian Holy Crown is depicted above an mscription - CAROLUS. VI. / ROM:(anorum) IMPER:(ator) S:(emper) A:(ugustus) / GER:(maniae) HISPAN:(iae) HUNG:(ariae) / BOH:(emiae) REX. A:(rchidux) AUS:(triae) / CORONATUS/ POSON.(ii) 22 MAY/ 1712. The lambrequin motives are similar to the ornaments of the Nürnberger dishes. Two pieces are known from this type. One dish (Inv. n. 60.258.1.) is saved in the Ceramic Collection of the Museum of Decorativ Art in Budapest, the other one (Inv. n. 11.576.) is in the Museum of Decorativ Art in Prague. Both are marked: APK. All of the four dishes have 22 cm diameter. The other type used medals of both coronations (Frankfurt 1711, Pozsony 1712). Around the two-headed eagle holding sword and sceptrum are presented four medalions, two of them with the memorial inscriptions about the coronations from the front pages of the coins, and two with the impresa of the emperor - Constantia et Fortitudine (With constancy and valour). Two pairs of different camieau blue multifloral branchlets separete the motives. The back side is also decorated and marked LVE. There are known five pieces from this type, but there sizes are different. (Dish from New York Metropolitan Museum (Inv. n. 54.147.100, diameter: 39,4 cm), two dishes (Inv. n. VH 7138, 7139; diameter: 34,5 cm) are in Slovak National Museum in Bratislava. Two dishes (Inv. n. CE26697, CE26696, diameter: 30 cm) are found in the collection Museo Nációnál de Artes Decorativas at Madrid. All are marked LVE. So they were made in the workshop of "De Metaale Pot" directed by Lambertus van Eenhoom between 1691- 1724. These dishes commemorate the magnificant event of the coronation in Pozsony. The researchers publishing the dishes from Bratislava National Museum supposed that these valuable dishes from Delft were presented for the guests of high rank, Hungarian nobles during the reception on the next day after the coronation banquet. Unfortunatly we couldn't find any mention of fayance or porcelain pieces in the written sources about the gifts, or about the ornate servie of coronation dinner or the "Schaubuffet".

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