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

139 HUNGARIAN FINE CERAMICS, FAIENCE, STONEWARE, AND CHINA GLASSWARE-CRAFT In the third display case, we exhibit a table-set. The set, made in 1856, with the slightly geometrical flowers is an early piece of the rare Hungarian style. The other world-famous ceramics factory, the Zsolnay factory in Pécs, was founded by Vilmos Zsolnay in the second half of the 19th century. At first, he produced simple pots, but he soon realized that he could not compete with the cheap products of the Czech, Austrian, and German factories. Therefore, on the one hand, he tried to develop a characteristically Hungarian style, and on the other hand, he wanted to raise the material and ornamentation of the pots to an artistic level at the same time. His experiments created a success story in the i87o's. At the 1878 world exhibition in Paris, he achieved a huge success with his particularly fine, so-called china faience. Following this, he started other experiments. In the second half of the 1880's, together with Vince Wartha, he created the eosin glaze through a series of experiments. The exhibited objects were made between 1870-1900 and they bear the distinctive marks of almost all the characteristic styles. In the display case of the hall, pieces of chinaware from Vienna are displayed. The Viennese China Factory was one of the first ones to be founded in Europe. It began to operate in 1717, and soon became world-famous. The pots on display were made at the beginning of the 19th century. In Hungary, the glass factories became active under the influence of Venetian glass art at the turn of the I3th-i4th centuries. In the 14th century, the formerly prospering glassware craft declined and almost entirely disappeared. It was only at the end of the 17th century that it began