H. Kolba Judit szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum Guide 2 - From the Foundation of the State until the Expulsion of the Ottomans - The history of Hungary in the 11th to 17th centuries (Budapest, 2005)

ROOM 7 - Transylvania and Royal Hungary (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Judit H. Kolba)

64. Jewels from the 17th century: hair ornament and aigrette They kept their important documents, money and seals in guild chests bearing their coat of arms. The chest of the silversmiths' guild of Nagyszombat is covered with a silver sheet decorated with embossed goblets. When the warden convened an assembly, the other masters were notified by summoning tablets. The finest relic of these is the summoning tablet of the Brassó (Brasov) silversmiths from 1556: it shows on one side in relief the silversmith working in the workshop, and on the reverse the engraved view of the workshop and the shop (Fig. 66). In the same case a wooden tablet of a tailors' guild, and a gilded copper tablet of a shoemakers' guild can be seen. THE POTTERY OF THE HABANS Habans is a name for Anabaptists, adherents of a popular Protestant trend, who were expelled because of their creed from Moravia. They emerged as early as the end of the 16th century in Transdanubia and northern Hungary. They came in the greatest number to Transylvania in 1622, where Gábor Bethlen settled them in Alvinc (Vintul de Jos) and its environs, and later, in the 1640s, György Rákóczi I invited them to Sárospatak. They pursued different crafts, but the most famous of these was pottery. They made their tin glazes and colours according to secret formulas and painted mainly blue and yellow flowers on a white background in decorating their