Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz (Debrecen, 1978)

English Summary

In this style the prettiness of the object is presented by the materiality and really the artistic effect is suggested by the form. The earliest object is an opalglass bokály decorated with red colour writing pattern belonging perhaps the most interesting and valuable group of glasses in the XVII

— XVIII centuries. Such vessels have remained in Transylvania strong in numbers. Probably the spirit-flasks delorated with opac enamelling were made in Transdanubia and they show German and Austrien group consist of vessels decorated with theread-like ornament and on which the decorations are fibreglasses pasted on the surface of glass. From the first decades of XIX century derive the vessels blowed in a then general form and on which decorations in relief show renascence influence. Illustrative examples for them are the little jugs and glasses. With an other group of vessels we can discover a new occurance in decoration. This new one is the graving which is a passing from blowed style to the other big glass style, the crystall style. As early an in the XVII century appeared this technique in Hungary. In our exhibition the earliest ground glass is a jug from 1773. The bottle adapted to wine-bin has a typical XVIII century form. These vessels having square prismatic body were made with the technique of blowing in form. Their figures truly reflect the success of expediency well then were used as traveling vessels placed side by side. In the second glass-case we see the group of glasses accepted and popular in the second part and at the end of last century. These are the socalled ruly tanned glasses having a decoration on the surface of the colourless glass by tanning. As a great part of them are wine-bottles and glasses so the decorations in wine-leaf and bunch of grapes. In the third glass-case we can see the so-called peasant glasses in the little glass-houses in blowed glass style in the XIX century. Among them the glasses made in Regéc form are a greater part. The special pieces reflect clear blowed stylistical marks. The foamy glasses were made with a special, so-called Regéc technique. The wine-bin decorated with convex circular is characteristic peasant glass of the other impotant glass-house of north hilly region, the Parad factory working with artistic claim. In the fourth glass-case glasses reflecting the characteristics of the crystall style are to be seen. It is well seen, that at these objects not the form gained by blowing gives the aesthetic experience but the decoration being independent of the form. In the last gallery are the so-called biedermeier glasses of the famous Bohemian glasswarecraft popular in the XIX century and which were decorations of civil flats. These objects showing neo-Gothic forms also reflect the characterictics of the crystall style. LIST OF FIGURES 1. Opaline bokály with written pattern. Transylvania, Porumbák. XVII

— XVIII century. 2. Opac enamelled brandy-bottle. Transdanubia, XVIII century. 3. Wine-bottle with opaline fibreglass decoration. Zemplén, XIX century. 426