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Diána RADVÁNYI: The Early Products and Brief History of the Porcelain Factory of Regéc
noteworthy: a good example is a plate adorned with a sledge drawn by six horses in a blizzard in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, (fig. 7) Services with intricate neo-baroque decoration and others with clear graceful lines are also known. A decade later Fiedler, however, gave up porcelain production and only worked in hard paste ceramics, in which material the factory also produced finely painted and gilded pieces. The pieces from the paste of the last decades mixed with calc-spar, decorated with stencils and transfer prints were so similar to the products of other majolica factories in the country that the factories of the unmarked pieces cannot be determined exactly. The target audience of the products can also only be inferred from the quality, style and ornaments of the products. Products made in the first year were for personal use in the princely family but the factory supplied them later as well. There is little information when and how the Telkibánya porcelain ware was sold. There is some reference in Mihalik's work: the products were allegedly sold through merchants in various large towns. 4 4 This was probably the way of marketing in Gyula Fiedler's time, too. In the late 19th century there was mass production, the factory having warehouses not only in Debrecen but "in every larger town". Before the factory was wound up in 1906, some products were exported to Serbia, Romania and even to America. 4 5 NOTES 1 Last will of Ferdinánd Bretzenheim, 1840. Hungarian National Archives (hereinafter: MOL), the archive of the Bretzenheim family, bundle P 66.93. 2 Article XLIII of 1827: "Counts Ignácz, József, Ferencz and Tádé Attems, marquis Ede Pallavicini and Princes Ferdinánd and Alfonz Breczenheim are herewith accepted as naturalized Hungarians (...) § 3: Princes Ferdinánd and Alfonz Breczenheim, the former a chamberlain of the imperial and apostolic royal holy highness, the latter the lieutenant of the Hungarian cavalry regiment, for their outstanding efforts of promoting the interests of homeland, and having paid the legal dues imposed on the two Breczenheim brothers and the four Counts Attems brothers, all of them and their legal offspring are admitted among the unquestionable sons of the country." In: NETJOGTÁR. A KJKKERSZÖV Kft. CompLex legal database, http://www.l000ev.hu/index.php?a=3¶m=5122. 3 The original document: MOL Departamentum Commerciale 1833, Fons 15. Pos. 356. "Széchényi Stephanus nomine Principis Breczenheim vasa fictika anglika ~ nov. 1. doc. no.: 30971, and Pos. 357 ~ nov. 12 and Pos.. 839. "Camera e.q. 357 a.c. Stephanus Széchényi et respve (?) Principi Breczenheim inventionem vasorum (...) haberi (...). 39917/ nov. 27. doc.no.: 33599; the document is referred to and cited by Mihalik, Sándor: 'A magyar porcelángyártás kezdetei' [The beginnings of porcelain production in Hungary]. In: Folia Archeologica (new series) vol. VI, 1954, 168-182 (hereinafter: Mihalik 1954), 18, and Molnár, László reproduces the letter in facsimile: 'Széchenyi István és az iparművészet' [István Széchenyi and the applied arts]. In: Művészettörténeti Értesítő 1966, 259. 4 His travel logbook says he was in Naples and Rome. MOL Bretzenheim family archives, bundle P66.92. 5 MOL Departamentum Commerciale 1834, Fons 15. Pos... 32 and 32a "Breczenheim Princeps Ferdinandus antiquorum vasorum et artefactorum ex ruderibus Cittis Pompeji ad lucem protractorum ex gypso et argilla porcellana confectas modellas d°." 87
