Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town - II-4 House from Erdőbénye

11-4 House from I At last the family is together in the Miklóssy-house, in Erdőbénye! The son has come home from the faraway parish where he is a priest. The house, which is an authentic copy, is built from local stone. The interior evokes a Sunday evening in August 1876. The family who are wine-growers and stone-cutters belong to the middle-class section of market town society. Their childrens education was important to them and one son, _ ordained as a Roman Catholic • clergyman, graduated from a seminary after finishing secondST? ary school in Sátoraljaújhely. In the front room his cassock ' and trunk can be seen. • The table is laid with earthenware plates for the Sunday dinner Factories producing earthenware products emerged in the first half of the 19th century. The plates, decorated with parsley and wine-leaf were made between 1840 and Erdőbénye 1860. Prominently displayed in the room are glasses made in the foundries of Zemplén. Decanters, brandy and wine bottles were also produced there. The most beautiful glass had a foamy decoration: a narrow, viscous opaque frosted glass thread was applied to the half-ready glass-