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BOBROVSZKY Ida: Három gótizáló ötvösmű Kecskemétről
Béla Schäffer, an excellent painter of historical still lives, was also fascinated by the beaker in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. Beside still lives about famous goldsmith's works of the Museum, in 1870 he made a separate painting about the beaker of Mihály Erdős, in an approppriate composition with clusters of grapes and vine leaves 15 . Notes 1 A beaker with the inscription "ERDÖS MIHÁLY BIRO ERZSÉBET 1631". H: 18.7 cm, marked. Budapest, Hungarian National Museum. Poc.Jank.99 A beaker with the inscription "SZABÓ ISTVÁN AN DO 1632". II.: 20 cm, marked. Athens, Byzantine Museum. I.37/a (BM 1843). A beaker with the inscription "MÉSZÁROS BENEDEK ANNO 1637". H.: 19 cm, marked. Tószeg, Calvinist Church. 2 Hornyik, János: Kecskemét város története. (The History of The City of Kecskemét) Vols. I-IV, Kecskemét, 1860-66. Vol.11, pp.279-280. 3 Kecskemét város számadáskönyvei (The Books of Kecskemét City) 1676 Vol.8, pp. 87 and 93; 1677, Vol9, pp. 48 and 68; 1685-86, Vol.12, p. 12. Kecskemét, Robot Lajstrom (The List of Peasant Work), 1668, pp. 146 and 191. Kecskeméti ÁL (Archives of Kecskemét) 4 Nagykőrös, Városi tanácsülési jegyzőkönyv (The Minutes of the Session of the Nagykőrös City Council), 1636-1715, p. 30. Archives of Kecskemét 5 The testimony of István Szenczi Ötvös, 1679. Kecskemét, the Library of the Presbyterian Church. Testimonies, II/3. 6 Hornyik, János: see above, Vol. II, pp.260-261. 7 Commemorating board, 1684. Kecskemét, Presbyterian Church 8 Goblet "CALIX VSVI ORDINAT IN ECCLESIA KETSKEMETIANA ORTHO AD 1626". II.: 22 cm, marked. Kecskemét, Presbyterian Church. Goblet "KECZKEI ECIILES.IA:POIIARA A:D 1641". H.: 16 cm, marked. Tiszakécske, the Presbyterian Church of kecske. Plate "ANNO DNI 1638. CATHOLICAE REFORMATAE ECCLESIAE KECZKEMETHIENSIS". Diam.: 17.5 cm, marked. Kecskemét, Presbyterian Church. Plate "ANNO DO. 1638 CATHOLICAE REFORMATAE ECCLESIAE KECKEMETHIENSIS". Diam.: 17.5 cm, marked. Kecskemét, Presbyterian Church For the maker's mark of György Cseh see Kőszeghy, Elemér: Magyarországi ötvösjegyek (Goldsmith's Marks in Hungary). Bp, 1936, p. 154. B.Bobrovszky, Ida: A XVII. századi mezővárosok iparművészete (Decorative Arts in Seventeenth Century Hungarian Country Towns ) (Kecskemét, Nagykőrös, Debrecen), Bp, 1980 p. 158. 9 Bobrovszky, Ida: A XVI. századi magyar református zsinatok végzéseinek művészeti vonatkozásai (Artistic Considerations of Regulations Made by Sixteenth Century Hungarian Presbyterian Synods) In. Ars Hungarica 1976/1, pp. 65-71. 10 B.Bobrovszky, Ida: see above 11 Falke, Otto von: Die Neugotik in deutschen Kunstgewerbe der Spätrenaissance. Jahrbuch d. Preuß. Kunstsamml. 1919, pp.75-92. 12 Bobrovszky, Ida: A debreceni református egyház XVII-XVIII századi oszlopdiszes úrvacsorakannái (The 17-18th Century Communion Carafes with columnal decoration of the Debrecen Presbyterian Church) In. Epités Építészettudomány (Construction - Architecture) V, 1974/3-4. B.Bobrovszky, Ida: see above pp. 65-68. Makkai, László: Manierisla ötvösművészet Debrecenben (Mannerist Goldsmith Art in Debrecen) In. Árkádia. Antológia a Déri Múzeum Baráti Köre fennállásának 50. évfordulójára (Arcadia. An antology on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Patron Circle of the Déri Museum), Debrecen 1978 pp.198-203. 13 Elenchus Collectionis Nikolai Jankovich ad proprietotem Musei Nationalis Hungáriái resignatae. Tom. 1. 1840. Consignato Scyphorum, no. 99. 14 In 1978, I received detailed information and photos about the baker of István Szabó from the Bysantine Museum in Athens. 15 Béla Schäffer's (b. Nagykároly, 1815 - d. Düsseldorf, 1871) portrait is now in the collection of the Déri Museum in Debrecen. Inv. No.D.F. 208.31.1. Oil, wood, 40x31,7. I would like to express my thanks to dr. Júlia Szabó for having directed my attention to the painting. Szabó, I.: Still-life. In. Arts in Hungary 1830-1870. Catalogue I. Bp. 1981. pp. 134-136.
