Cs. Balogh Éva szerk.: Szentendre múltjából. A kerámia, az üveg- és fémművesség emlékei. Szentendre szőlő- és borkultúrája (Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, Szentendre, 1996)

Relics of Pottery, Glass Work and Metal Work Vine-Growing And Wine-Producing Men are characterized by the material world surrounding him: it reflects their way of life, their work, their habits, their religion and their financial condition. There are plenty of objects in the possession of the museum that have never been displayed. That is why we are trying to display the current inhabitants of Szentendre through their everyday objects in the House of Folk Arts. The products of pottery, glass work and metal work can be seen in chronological order, with a representative object type set next to each other now and then. In the first hall ritual and everyday objects made of clay from the Neolithic Age on are on show. In the surroundings of the settlement there was no good-quality clay but the products of near as well as distant pottery centres were earned here through trading. „The porcelain of the ancient world", the red-glazed terra sigillata also was carried this way from the distant parts of the Roman Empire to Pannónia. In modern times most of the fire-proof pots and pans were bought from the potters of Csákvár, while the dishes from those of Tata, but in the pottery material of Szentendre the products of nearly all the bigger pottery centres can be found. Even the tiles of stoves were made by a potter - later they were made by stove-makers specialized in this job. At this area heating by stove was predominant up to the end of the 19th century. Earthenware was a basic part of all the households up to the 20th century; the kitchen of the poor differed from that of the well-to-do first in tableware, then in ornamental vessels. At the end of the 18th century blown glassware for keeping wine or brandy, glasses and bottles could have been found everywhere. Glass - though its price was payable owing to mass-production had never become an indispensable piece of Hungarian peasant or peasant-middle class households. The majority of the glassware, everyday and ornamental vessels on show are from the home of town citizens. The exhibits of the third hall belong to metal work. Some of the objects representing metal work are also dishes: they were made of bronze, copper, tin, silvery, metal and iron. Metal work includes weapons and tools as well. It is remarkable that the material and the form of the tools of the same function have remained almost unchanged up to this day (goads, sickles, hoes). Among the craftsmen of Szentendre there were smiths, while later blacksmiths and locksmiths in the greatest number. Their work was necessary for not only agricultural and industrial production but also trading. Decorative forge-work, window and gate-bars, strap-hinges, locks and doorhandles, wrought-iron crosses all belonged to the townscape of the old Szentendre. In the cellar of the House of Folk Arts the history of the vine culture in Szentendre is shown. The geographical potentiality of the town is preferable for grape- and fruit-growing. The first grape-cultivating tools are from the Roman times. The Serbs settling in the 17th century introduced a Balkan-type grape- and red wine-culture. The quality of the red wine of Szentendre was similar to that of Buda, and it was conveyed on the Danube in great quantities to the neighbouring countries and the Balkans. The phylloxera epidemic at the end of the 1880s put an end to the grape culture flourishing for two centuries, and people took up growing fruit (especially gooseberry). At the exhibition the objective and written documents of the local grape- and wineculture are displayed.