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

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

7. Ornamental plate with the depiction of a horse-drawn sledge in a snow storm, 1861 (Hungarian National Museum inv. no. 1962.150.1) cano, towers at its foot, and a strolling couple in a grove in the foreground, (fig. 6) The overglaze paint is somewhat mat. In this period a depicted volcano meant the Vesuvius all over Europe; there are several Viennese porcelain pieces with representations of Naples and Sicily. They all go back to a common source: a travelogue illustrated with engravings by a Frenchman pennamed Abbé de Saint Non published in 1791, a copy of which could be found in the porcelain factory of Vienna. Comparing the portraits and landscapes on the Regéc pieces with the paintings on products of the other and better-known porcelain factory, Herend, it can be established that the Regéc products have a higher artistic quality. The same applies to the richly gilt vases and tableware adorned with flowers, fruits and birds also in the years 1844-1846. When Gyula Fiedler took over the factory, a wholly different period of equally good quality ware began aimed at quite a different clientele. That was when production truly became industrialized thanks to Fiedler's investment in technical modernization. The excellent raw material probably also imported from Czech mines allowed for complex forms of plasticity. Not only the modelled forms but also the painted decorations in the style of romanticism are 86