Begovácz Rózsa – Burján István – Vándor Andrea: Folk Art in Baranya County (Pécs, 2008)

Folk Pottery

or white background. It was often his wife's job. Géza Sáfrány attained the title 'Master of Folk Art' in 1978. In Magyarhertelend making pitchers was traditionally a womens' job until the end of the 1800s. Mihály Haas observed that 'younger women and girls make smaller and bigger pitchers with the help of a potter's wheel, the smaller of which for drawing drinking water are known widely as »bubbling pitchers«. They gained their name because when dipping them in water they bubble, since there is not another hole in them except its mouth'. The unglazed pitchers were originally made with spiral tecnique, their surface was smoothed on a hand-powered wheel. Due to manual shaping, they are Cooking vessel / R.n. 73.1 6.48 / h. 21,3 cms / d. 10 cms / Bakóca Pot with legs/R.n. 69.9.25 / h. 20 cms/ d. 28 cms / Bakóca Duck fryer / R.n. 97.3.2 / h. 7 cms / I. 34,5 cms / Bakóca 67