Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz II. A Déri gyűjtemények. 2. javított kiadás (Debrecen, 2001)

HUNGARIAN FINE CERAMICS, 236 FAIENCE, STONEWARE, AND CHINA Hungarian noblemen and Transylvanian princes settled them down on their own domains. They were the best potters of the period. Their white, yellow, or blue tin-glazed pots were at first decorated with various floral patterns, and later with figurái ornaments, complemented with birds or badges of different crafts. In the first display case, the oldest piece from the 17th century is the one dating back to 1709. As it is typical of these plates and dishes, this one also has a badge of a craft on it. The dishes in the next display case demonstrate the general and widespread use of this type of dishes. On the blue, yellow, and white-glazed dishes and pots in display case 3, the floral motifs of carnations, tulips, and marguerites show the same decorative elements with intense artistic variation. In the fourth display case, besides the chessboard motif ornamentation, birds, deer, and trees of life are the new elements. The majority of the "bokály"-s with images of saints on them and the pots ornamented with asters and buildings were made in the 19th century (display case 5). In display case 6, Faience pots are exhibited. Most of them are pots, simple floral and fruit ornamented dishes, jugs, and vases made at a place called Holies. The female-figural table spice-box represents the figurái pots made in a great number. Similarly, the cabbage-head form for dishes was also popular. The other box of the same type was already made in Buda, and it illustrates how accurately the motifs were copied. The duck-shaped pot is marked with a Kosolnai badge. The popular Veronical holy-water stoops were made in Stomfa. Faience production began to decline at the end of the 18th century, and this tendency was intensified by the appearance and spreading of the much harder stone-earthen vessels. In Hungary the production of earthen-ware pots glazed at