Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz (Debrecen, 1978)
English Summary
Déri Museum comes from the 1850-ies and 60-ies, from the days which are deservedly treated as the days of the glory of the factory. From the European factories the greatest influence on Herend had the factory of Meissen. In the 1st herendi vitriné the breakfast set is decorated with little birds with diversely coloured plumage, which is a Rotschild motif of Meissen origin. From the 1850-ies on, the Oriental, Chinese and Japanese china has a deeper influence on Herend. One of the most beautiful example of this is the fish-motif which appears on an ornamental plate, and on the outer side of the plate the so-called Welsh-motif can be seen. Among the products of the factory sculptures always were made in a small number. The displayed dishes ornamented with the so-called Dubarry motif show the influence of the other famous European factory, the Sevres. In the 3rd vitriné we exhibit a table-set. The set, made in 1856, with the little bit geometrical flowers is an early piece of the rare Hungarian style. The oher world-famous ceramic factory, the Zsolnay factory in Pécs, was founded by Zsolnay Vilmos in the second half of the 19th century. First he made simple daily pots but he soon realized that he could not compete with the cheap products of the Czech, Austrian and German factories, therefore on the one hand he tried to develop a characteristically Hungarian style and on the other hand he wanted to raise the material and ornamentation of the pots into an artistic level as well. His experiments brought a success in the 1870-ies. In the world exhibition in Paris in 1878 he achieved a great success with his peculiarly fine, so-called china faience. After this he started other experiments. In the second half of the 1880-ies together with Wartha Vince he worked out experimentally the eozin glaze. The displayed objects were made between 1870— 1900 and they have the marks of almost all the characteristic syles. In a vitriné of the hall chinas from Wien are displayed. The Wiennish China Factory was one of the first ones in Europe. It began to work in 1717 and soon became world-famous. The exhibited pots were made at the beginnings of the 19th century. GLASSWARECRAFT In turn of XIII —XIV century in Hungary the glass-houses became active under the influence of Venetian glass art. In the XVI. the century the prospering glasswarecraft declined almost all over. At the end of XVII. century began to develop again and realised its purpose in the XVIII. century. In regions abounding in forest, in Upper Northern Hungary, In Transylvania, in Transdanubia a number of glass-houses worked in XVIII —XIX centuries. After the formaton of glass industry the little glass-houses preserved the forms and the decorations established for centuries till the end of XIX. century. The glassware exhibited in the last gallery of the applied arts exhibition give a picture of the hungarian glasswarecraft in the XVII —XIX centuries. In the first glass-case the glasses deriving from the XVIII —XIX centuries show the first large, so-called blowed glass style of the glass art. 425
