Körmöczi Katalin szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum 3 - From the End of the Turkish Wars to the Millennium - The history of Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries (Budapest, 2001)

ROOM 15. Education, Science and Culture at the End of the 19th Century (Katalin Körmöczi - Eszter Aczél - Annamária T. Németh - Edit Haider)

71. Tray with painted scene and the inscription "Processi"

, china, Papa, early 19th century artistic work. From the 1860s onwards, he produced pieces with painted scenes from the life of the Hungarian people. The Zsolnay ceramics factory registered exceptional achievements among the European ceramics factories of the time. The factory passed into the ownership of Vilmos Zsolnay (1828-1900) in 1865. Its boom period coincided with the rise of Historicism. It achieved its first success at the Vienna exhibition of 1873. The fivetowered factory mark was designed in 1878. Vilmos Zsolnay was given an honorary diploma, a gold medal and the Legion of Honour at the Paris exhibition of the very same year. Porcelain-faiance embellished with high-gloss enamel was a real innovation in ceramic art. Architects at the end of the century were happy to use the firm's coloured pyrogranite tiles: on the Parliament, on Budapest's Museum of Applied Arts, on the Town Hall in Kecskemét, and on the church in Kőbánya. Together with the chemist Vince Wartha, Zsolnay created one of the factory's greatest achievements, the eosine-glaze lustre technique. The lustred vase with the Italian brocade pattern that visitors can see was made for the Millennial Exhibition (Fig. 74). The determining factor of Hungarian glass art in the 19th century was crystal glass, and its favourite genre the spa souvenir glass showing the buildings of the spa (Fig. 75). The products of the glass works located near spas - Párád, Ajka, Mehadia, Borszék (Borsec), Bártfa - were at the begin-