Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 18. (Budapest, 1999)

New acquisitions 1998

designer. The furniture presented here is a characteristic synthesis of the British Arts and Crafts movement, the French Symbolist trend and Hungarian folk art. The designer used these pieces when furnishing his own home and published them in his 1916 book summarizing his work (Thoroczkai-Wigand, Ede: Hímes udvar [An artistic home]. Budapest: Táltos Kiadó, 1916, Ills. 2, 7). Ferenc Batári DEPARTMENT OF METALWORK Ring: "Zen" Mátyás Pataki, Budapest, 1997-98 Silver with polished jasper; cast, chased, rivetted Diameter: 3.2 x 4 cm The two curving bands of the ring, which is shaped like a horseshoe, each end in a sphere marked into sections and supplied with a pin. The top consists of a polished, spinnable jasper cylinder in a setting resembling a flat-roofed pagoda. Purchased with funds won in a National Cultural Foundation competition, 1998 Inv. No.: 98.125 Ring; "Gothic" Mátyás Pataki, Budapest, 1997-98 Silver with polished amazonite and cornelian; cast, chased, rivetted Diameter: 2.7 x 4.5 cm Below the horizontal, flat upper part are pieces of cornelian polished into pointed shapes. The top is a piece of amazonite - on a mechanism enabling it to be spun round with a four-leafed clover pattern and chased segments set in an eight-spoked silver wheel. Purchased with funds won in a National Cultural Foundation competition, 1998 Inv. No.: 98.126 Ring: "Mesopotamian" Mátyás Pataki, Budapest, 1997-98 Silver with polished obsidian; cast, chased, rivetted Diameter: 3 x 4.3 cm At each end of the thick, embossed and curved band of the ring is an articulated console. On this is fitted a finely bent piece of sheet silver with the corners cut off, in the pierced middle of which there is large stone of black obsidian. This is cylindrical, polished and spinnable, with segments chased onto it.