Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 31. (Budapest, 2017)

Veronika SZILÁGYI: Rebirth of the Gundel Centrepiece: Methodological Experiments in the Restoration of Enamelled Metalwork

NOTES

1 Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Metalwork Collection, inv. no. 63.558.1

2 I restored the item in the academic year 2015/2016 as my diploma work at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. My supervisor was Eszter Szatmáriné Bakonyi, restorer at the Hungarian National Museum and head of metalwork restoration at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. My consultant was Gábor Juhász, restorer of metalwork at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. The work was executed in the metalwork restoration workshop at the Museum of Applied Arts. The costs of the restoration were covered by the Friends of the Museum of Applied Arts.

3 Kiss, Ákos: “Néhány szó a hisztorizmusról.”

[A few words on historicism.] In: Művészet, 1966/11, p. 8.; Prékopa, Ágnes: Európai zománcmíívesség a középkortól a szecesszióig. Válogatás az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeiből. [European enamelwork from the Middle Ages to the Secession. Selected works from the collections of the Museum of Applied Arts.] Iparművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Applied Arts], Budapest, 1991, cat. no. 89.;

Batári, Ferenc - Vadászi, Erzsébet (eds.): Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. [Revival Styles in the 19th Century. Periods in European Decorative Arts]. Iparművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Applied Arts], Budapest, 1992, cat. no. 382.; SerföZÖ, Szabolcs: A Gundel-tál: egy historizáló dísztárgy forma- és funkcióváltozása [The Gundel Centrepiece. Changes in Form and Function of a Historicising Artwork]. (2015) http://www.imm.hu/hu/news/view/138. Accessed 14 February 2017.

4 Head of Diana, facing to the right, with a number 3 to the left of her head, and a letter P (for Pest) to the right, all set within a pentalobe. This hallmark was in use between 1872 and 1922 for 800 ppt silver. See: Reitzner, Viktor: Alt-Wien-Lexikon für Österreichische und Süddeutsche Kunst und

Kunstgewerbe. III. Band. Edelmetalle und deren

Punzen. Wien, 1952, p. 113 (hereinafter Reitzner 1952).

5 Head of a greyhound, facing to the right, with a number 3 to the left of the head, and a letter P (for Pest) to the right, all within an irregular, flattened hexagonal frame. This type of mark was in use between 1872 and 1922 for smaller objects made with 800 ppt silver. See: Reitzner 1952,

p. 113.

6 Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Archive,

NLT 4558.

7 Vasárnapi Újság newspaper, 1907, issue 33, p. 669, with picture.

8 The descendants of the Gundel family were unable to contribute any new information about the object. I would like to take this opportunity to thank

Mrs Ervin Gundel née Márta Takács and the other members of her family for their kind assistance.

9 Nagy, Péter Tibor: Az 1929-es magyar zsidó lexikon adatbázisa. Szociológiai adatbázisok No. 1. [Database of the Hungarian Jewish lexicon of 1929. Sociological databases No. 1.] WJLF (John Wesley Theological College), Budapest, 2013.

10 During the course of my research I came across several items attributed to Albert Bachruch which, based on the dates that appear on the items, must actually have been made by Károly Bachruch.

The confusion can certainly be ascribed to the name of the factory.

11 He owned nine valuable residential properties in Budapest: in the 4th district, at Aranykéz utca 7, Kristóf tér 8 and Szervita tér 8, in the 5th district at Géza utca 5, in the 6th district at Teréz körút 29, in the 7th district at Damjanich utca 16, 29 and 31, and in the 8th district at Népszínház utca 11; in addition he had estates in the (historical) counties of Borsod and Szabolcs. See Vörös, Károly: Budapest legnagyobb adófizetői 1903-1917 (Adalékok Budapest társadalomtörténetéhez a dualizmus korában I.) Tanulmányok Budapest múltjából 17. [The main taxpayers in Budapest 1903-1917

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