Mészáros Gyula: Szekszárd és környéke török díszítésű kerámia emlékei (Szekszárd, 1968)

peculiar Turkish-style and late Haban ornamentation, they show a distinct likeness among them. Their influence can be traced to the popular ceramic art of Szekszárd of our days. The three sites are: Visegrád, (County Pest), Szekszárd and Mórágy (County Tolna.). The particular Turkish-style ornamentation is the so-called ,,whirling rose", applied on the bottom or on the inner wands of the bowls, furthermore the mottled-glaze decoration. The stylized floral patterns (foliage, garlands, spiral lines) are mainly of late Haban origine. The attendant finds show that these ceramic workshops flourished from the end of the XVIIth to the 2nd half of the XVIIIth centuries, in the case of Szekszárd from the middle to the end of the XVIIIth century. From the beginning of the XVIIIth century on they belonged to potters' guilds, so numerous in Hungary at this time. The artefacts of South Slavic and Hungarian potters don't show the classic Turkish ceramical forms: the pedestalled bowl, funnel-shaped deep bowl, spherical segment-shaped bowl etc. any longer, at the same time the original Turkish ornamentation survives there almost unchanged. The Hungarian population of the Sárköz, with their peculiar taste for beautiful and artistic industrial products, has a liking for the Turkish-style pottery of Mórágy and Szekszárd, which have a good market there. The Turkish-style dishes, bowls, plates and jugs are known as „Sárköz ware". In the village of Mórágy the German-speaking population, settled there from Hessen in 1724, and from Pfalz in 1784, took over the local ceramic art. During the XlXth century German potters kept making the dishes with tulip ornamentation and added the daisy and bird as new motifs. This type appears in the special literature as „Mórágy dish". The surviving of old Turkish ornamentation can be observed in our days on the dishes of the folk potters of Szekszárd: József Tamás, (f 1966) and István Steig, as well as in Yougoslavia, on the pottery of Pirot and its environment.