Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2013)
II. Muzeologie. Conservare-restaurare. Pedagogie muzeala
Angela Pop Bistrita, Deda, Dräuseni, Saschiz, Ghindari, Solocma, but there are also the products of the Targu-Mures artizans as well. Tárgu Mures was a major commercial centre, owing to the privileges it had and the geographical situation. Its trade relationships expanded to the east as far as the border with Moldavia, to the west as far as Turda, to the north they reached the Bistrita area and to the south they included Sighisoara and Medias. In the annual organized markets, of national importance, very diverse products from different geographical zones were brought and sold, aspect that positively influenced the evolution of the local industry. The pottery used in Transylvania came from two sources: the potters grouped in specialized villages, who produced mainly common use pottery, without enamel, and the craftsmen organized in guilds, who provided the enamelled ceramics, for decorative purposes, and also common use pottery. While the village potters were constrained by the guild ones, through legal measures, to use only local material and traditional, archaic techniques, the guild potters cultivated permanent contacts with the Central Europe, profiting from all the practical innovations of the time. Among the usual receptacles, with no enamel, there were the pots, of different dimensions, the pitchers, with traditional big-bellied shapes, ellipsoidal profile, short and narrow neck, trilobated mouth and sometimes a “tassel” or a “teat” on the handle, the bowls with inclined walls, and the legged pans for the free hearth. In what the decorative pottery from Transylvania in concerned, the guild craftsmen chose the enamelled polychrome ceramics, with diverse motives (phytomorphic and floral, the bird, the two-headed eagle or geometrical motives). From the multitude and variety of the decorative Transylvanian pottery (jugs, cups, bowls, plates and stove tiles), we draw attention upon the polychrome enamelled and brush or horn painted types. 314
