Veres László: Magyar népi üvegek (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 28. Miskolc, 1989)

ased by „habán" influence. The „habáns" the followers of the extreme religious sect of anabaptism expelled from Southern Tyrol and from Northern Italy at the end of the 16th century established developed pottery settling even in Transylvania. „Habán" potters glazed the glasses made in glass-works with tin glaze and painted the ornaments on the vessels with different metallic oxides. The most beautiful pieces of Transylvanian folk glasses are the cobalt blue pear-shaped jugs and pitchers most often denoted by a date, ornamented by the „habáns". Taking into consideration the number of glass-works the most important glass-making in Hungary was formed in Upper Hungary. The Rákóczi family was the first in establishing glass-works. They started production with glassworkers invited in from their estate in Makovica in the glass-work founded in 1698 at Regéc. They founded the glass-work of Párád in 1708 the successor of which is still at work. The glass-works in Upper Hungary first of all met the claims of the historical wine-districts eg. Tokaj-Hegyalj a providing bottles and vessels necessary for storing wine. While in Transylvania glass-making was influenced by Venice and Italy in the beginning in Upper Hungary CzechMoravian influence prevailed. In the western part of Hungary in Transdanubia developed glass-making emerged quite late compared to Transylvania and Upper Hungary only at the beginning of the 19th century. But the number of glass-works and the quantity of products were much less than on the two other territories The most famous glass-works were in Bakony hills and perhaps the most beautiful Hungarian folk glasses were made in the glass-work at Somhegy. The glasses from Somhegy usually had engraved ornaments. They often had a date, a monogram and the picture of a deer on. The latter was a motif in the coat-of-arms of Szentgál village. Szentgál was a settlement of nobles. Its inhabitants served the kings as royal hunters. Until as late as 1848 they sent fieldfares and wild-hogs for the royal kitchen in Vienna. The pictures of deers on the glass-wares were taken from the coat-of-arms of the settlement to the order of the nobles at Szentgál. The cause of the late formation of glassworks in Transdanubia may be in the fact that Austrian and German territories were not far off. The Austrians and 152