Zsolnay ceramic art from Hungary, featuring over 400 color photographs, covers the three main periods of Zsolnay production: 1868 to 1897--Folklorism, Historicism, Victorian Eclecticism; 1897 to 1920--Art Nouveau; and Art Deco; and 1920 to the present--Modernism. An entire chapter is devoted to Zsolnay marks to help identify the pieces. There are almost 11,000 different forms of domestic Zsolnay art works; 700 were issued in 1900 alone, and there are many undocumented forms imported in England and America. Along with the charming miniature, green-glazed, multi-figural series that Zsolnay is most identified with today, there is a wealth of earlier pieces to be found. A value range is given for each item in the book.
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In 1987 John Gacher and Federico Santi visited Hungary and the city of Pcs for the first time and immediately decided to become collectors of Zsolnay. The authors have been in partnership since 1971 and owners of The Drawing Room of Newport and The Zsolnay Store located at 152 Spring Street, Newport, Rhode Island 02840 since 1985 where they specialize in late 18th to early 20th century decorative arts with a concentration on Central European culture.
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A good book - dedicated to collectors and dealers,
This review is from: Zsolnay Ceramics: Collecting a Culture (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Hardcover)
This is an interesting book, published by two American private collectors of Zsolnay ceramics. It is richly illustrated with more that 400 color photographs, though the illustrations sometimes are only in good amateur quality. The text makes up only a small portion of the book and the authors are clearly not scholars. The advantage of this book is that they provide a price (value) range for the shown items, which can be useful in case you decide to collect antique Zsolnay ceramics. The book covers the three main periods of Zsolnay production:
1) the early years: 1868 to 1897 that included items decorated in a style of Hungarian Folklorism, Historicism, and Victorian Eclecticism; 2) the most important period: 1897 to 1920, Art Nouveau and Art Deco; 3) and finally the last period: from 1920 to the present including Modernism. Most of the ceramics in this book are from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco period which was of course the Golden Age of the Zsolnay Manufactory and the years of international fame. This book is especially useful to collectors and dealers of antique ceramics.
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