A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 3. - 1960 (Nyíregyháza, 1963)

Nyárády Mihály: The Grave posts from the Cevetery in Szatmárcseke

My comments can be concluded as follows: The grave-posts of Szatmárcseke are not uniform either for their shapes or for their ornaments. This anomaly could not be brought to an end even by the artisans (carpenters and wheelers) though being set on to preserve the matter of the posts. On the contrary, by steadily intending to make them more and more decorative, they just prevented the course of becoming uniform. Needless, perhaps, to say that all forms of ornamentation on the grave-posts of Szatmárcseke are forms of trade. They were taken over by the Hungarian carpenters and wheelers from the formmaterial of Renaissance and Baroque. The artisans of Szatmárcseke transplanted these forms to grave-posts of remarkable people died in the village, merely for ornamenting and they made and copied these fundamental patterns of grave-post as long as some of them did not create a new getting to higher estimation in general taste. M. Nyárády 218