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Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs and the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts. 7 “Tin glaze was expensive and mostly used by craft potters. A refined exterior can be produced industrially from cheaper material by putting a layer of fine clay over the outer surface. This pottery is known as slipware.” Mattyasovszky-Zsolnay, László: Finomkerámiai kézikönyv I [Handbook of Fine Ceramics I]. Budapest, 1953, pp. 8-9. 8 Zsolnay - M. Zsolnay 1980, p. 134. 9 Zsolnay - M. Zsolnay 1980, p. 135. 10 Zsolnay - M. Zsolnay 1980, p. 144. 11 T. Bruder, Katalin (ed.): Wartha Vince emlékkiállítás [Vince Wartha Memorial Exhibition], Iparművészeti Muzeum, 2005. Budapest, n.d. [2004]; Korach, Mór - Móra, László: Wartha Vince. A múlt magyar tudósai 1 [Hungarian Scientists of the Previous Century]. Budapest, 1974, pp. 187-214. 12 Archive of the Museum of Applied Arts, inv. no: KLT: 371. 13 Wartha, Vince: Az agyagipar [The Ceramics Industry]. Budapest, 1892, p. 166. 14 Grofcsik, János: A magyar finomkerámiaipar története [History of Hungarian Fine Ceramics], Budapest, 1973 (hereafter Grofcsik 1973), p. 18. 15 The technique for measuring water absorption was: weigh a sample in air-dry state (Radwag PS3500/C/2 digital balance), boil for 2 hours in distilled water and repeat weighing. The absorption was calculated from the increase in weight. The water absorption does not correspond to the actual porosity of the material, because some of the pores close during firing, so that there are both open and closed pores in the ceramic. 16 Ferenc Halmos, silicate chemist, private communication. 17 Ferenc Halmos, silicate chemist, private communication. 18 Somodi, Zsuzsanna - Pálffy, András - Kámori, Lajos: Finomkerámiaipari technológia [Fine Ceramics Technology]. Budapest, 1984 (hereafter Somodi et al. 1984), p. 241. 19 Grofcsik 1973, p. 13. 20 PetriK, Lajos: A magyarországi porcellánföldekről, különös tekintettel a riolitkaolinokra [Porcelain Clays of Hungary, Particularly Rhyolite Kaolins]. Budapest, 1887; Petrik, Lajos: A hollóházi (radványi) riolit-kaolin [Rhyolite Kaolin of Hollóház (Radvány)]. Budapest, 1889. 21 MattyASOVSZKY, Jakab - Petrik, Lajos: Az agyag-, üveg-, cement- és ásványfesték-ipamak szolgáló magyarországi nyers anyagok részletes katalógusa [Detailed Catalogue of Hungarian Raw Materials for the Ceramics, Glass, Cement and Mineral Paint Industries]. Budapest, 1885. 22 Ibid., 6. 23 Petrik, Lajos: ‘Agyagipar.’ [Ceramics Industry] In: Az iparművészet 1896-ban [The Applied Arts in 1896]. Budapest, 1897, p. 178. 24 For example, he writes, “Terracotta nowadays tends to be made of refractory material, and the products are fired at high temperature until they shrink.” Petrik, Lajos: Az agyagiparos [The Potter], Budapest, 1913, p. 163. 25 Wartha, Vince: ‘Zsolnay Vilmos emlékezete’ [In Memoriam Vilmos Zsolnay] Magyar Iparművészet XL 2 (1908), p. 58. 26 Grofcsik, János: A kerámia elméleti alapjai [The Theoretical Rudiments of Ceramics]. Budapest, 1956, p. 644. It is interesting that the author dedicated the book to “the memory of the fine Hungarian ceramicists Vince Wartha and Lajos Petrik”. 27 Petrik, Lajos: ‘The Ceramics Industry.’ In: Keleti, Károly (ed.): Hivatalos jelentés a budapesti 1885-iki Országos Általános Kiállításról [Official Report on the National General Exhibition in Budapest, 1885], vol. 3. Budapest, 1886, p. 219. 28 Ibid., pp. 205-206. 29 The Bigot Pavilion was displayed in a large scale exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts, 2013-2015, for which unfortunately no catalogue was produced; Horváth, Hilda: ‘Le pavilion Bigot-Lavirotte. L’histoire de l’acquisition d’un objet d’art.’ In: Ars Decorativa 29, Budapest, 2013, P- 71. 137
