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

GLASSWARE-CRAFT 140 to develop again, and it reached its full bloom in the 18th century. Generally, it was in regions abounding in forests, like in Upper Northern Hungary, in Transylvania, and in Transdanubia that quite a number of glass-works operated during the 18th19th centuries. Even after the establishment of a full-scale glass industry, the small glazieries retained the old and traditional forms and the decorations till the end of the 19th century. The glassware exhibited in the last gallery of the applied arts exhibition can serve as an introduction to the history of the Hungarian glassware craft in the i8th-i9th centuries. In the first display-case, the exhibits coming from the 18th19th centuries represent the first significant style, the so-called blown glass style of glass art. In this style, it is the material quality of the object that creates beauty, and the artistic effect is actually achieved through pure form. The earliest object is an opal glass "bokály" decorated with a red writing pattern. It belongs to the most valuable and artistically perhaps most interesting group of glass exhibits coming from the i7th-i8th centuries. A great number of such vessels have remained extant in Transylvania. The fruit brandy-flasks decorated with "opac" enameling were probably made in Transdanubia and they show German and Austrian influences. The next group consists of vessels decorated with fiber-like ornamentation. In this group, the decorations are actual glass fibers pasted on the surface of the objects. It is from the first decades of the 19th century that the vessels blown in a contemporary general form derive. Their decorations show a Renaissance influence. Illustrative examples of them are the little jugs and glasses. On yet another group of vessels we can discover a new way of decoration. This new way is called en-