Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Acquisitions between 2006 and 2010

waves and bubbles. The green glaze on the plastic decoration is so thin that the white glaze under it shows through. Marked: on the back the combined sign of the Budapest Zsolnay factory and Géza Gorka can be found: the letter Z in the corona of the sun with Gorka written under it. 2.2 The Budapest Zsolnay factory produced Géza Gorka's designs from 1946 until 1948 when the factory was nationalized. The characteristic formal idiom and ornamental motifs of the artist are also conspicuous on the pieces mass-produced with factory technology. Gift of Sándor Fábián, 2006 Inv. no 2007.144.1 2.3 Mood - figurine Design: János Török, manufacturer: Pécs Porcelain factory Porcelain, slip-cast, decorated with red eosin glaze c. 1960 H.: 15.5 cm, w.: 8 cm, 1.: 10.5 cm A seated male figure rendered in close to abstract forms. The openwork figure rests its left elbow on the left knee and the right hand on the right knee. Marked. On the bottom, the five towers and three shields with the inscription ZSOLNAY / PECS can be seen. The design drawing of the figure can be found in the factory book of forms no. 17, with form no. 97121 entitled Mood. János Török was employed by the Pécs factory after graduation from the Academy of Design in 1956 and worked there until he retired in 1992. In the first years, the latter half of the 1950s, he designed figures in a naturalist style. His interlaced, merging compositions often depict close human relations like the relationship of man and woman, mother and child. One of the best known pieces of this period is the pensive figure of Mood. Gift of Sándor Fábián, 2006 Inv. no. 2007.160.0 1.3 116