Veres László: Magyar népi üvegek (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 28. Miskolc, 1989)

group of cultic glasses. While the glasses with a special function did not have any ornaments, the glasses used for cultic purposes were usually ornamented. The fantasy of the glass-making masters was inexhaustible just like in other countries. We can discover articles with most fantastic forms and functi­ons among the folk- glasses. There were made painted Easter eggs at Párád, toys in Nógrád county, funny glasses in some glass-works of Transylvania and Upper Hungary. Besides them there were made pipes, curved sticks, glass­bottons nearly everywhere just to mention the most interesting ones. 156

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