Budapest Régiségei 41. (2007)

TANULMÁNYOK - ÉDER Katalin: Török kori fajanszok a Víziváros területéről

FAIENCE WARES FROM THE TURKISH PERIOD IN THE AREA OF THE VÍZIVÁROS In this article, Turkish faience wares found on lots at 15-23 Kacsa Street and during a former excavation in 2007-2008 at 16 Ganz Street, both in District II will be presented. Most of the 11 Turkish faiences came to light in the area of Kacsa Street. Two pieces were found on the building site at 16 Ganz Street. Maybe the earliest of them is the Damaskus style rim which was excavated from the northern part of the Kacsa Street excavations (Fig. 3). On the basis of parallels, it cabe dated to between 1560-1570. Four pieces belong to the socalled Rhodos style; two of these from the Ganz Street excavations (Fig. 8-9) and the other two from Kacsa Street (Fig. 1-2). These specimens were probably manufactured between 1560-1585 on the basis of analogies. The majority of the items may be classified within the late blue-white style, the so-called Budakalász group. Some of the fragments may actually belong to the same vessel based on their find spot as well as their decorations (picture 2 below, pictures 4-5 and 11). Two faiences were not made in an Iznik workshop. One of these sherds came from a vessel belongs to a Persian faience group and was probably manufactured in the first third of the 17th century (Fig. 10). The other specimen is a fragment of a faience cup although its exact workshop cannot be determined. Its colours suggest that it could have been produced in Iznik buts its weath of motifs and the heavily crazed glazing also suggest other origins. After its restoration and processing of later finds it may be possible to identify this piece more precisely. The time of its manufacture can be set in the middle or second half of the 16th century based on previous evidence from later finds (Fig. 6-7). In any case, the faiences found on these excavations can be ranked among the products of the highest quality Turkish faience manufacturing from the second half of thelóth century.