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

Diána RADVÁNYI: The Early Products and Brief History of the Porcelain Factory of Regéc

ornamentation suggest that several painters (from Vienna?) were possibly employed, although only a single painter, a certain Jos. (Joseph?) Paulus signed his pieces. Little is known of him; Mihalik appears to find a link between the name and the information that two painters trained and worked in the Schlaggenwald porcelain factory: Johann Hüttner and Carl Paulus and finds it noteworthy that the same two family names crop up in Telkibánya, too.

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8 Divald claims the mentioned Paulus was from Vienna who "sought work elsewhere in the declining period of the Vienna factory".

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9 It cannot be precluded that the painter working in Vienna was the same as the one in Telkibánya, but the data published by Neuwirth show that a master called Joseph Paulus only worked in the Vienna factory in 1851 (among the colour painters, bearing the number 25).

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0 In the Regéc output, there are two important pieces with the signature of this painter, both being portraits. One is a tobacco jar showing the founder of the factory. It is a cylindrical vessel with a projecting rim at the bottom and the top. Its slightly 5. Ornamental plate with the portrait of Archduke Stephen, 1848 (MAA inv. no. 19535) 84