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Ónedények a történelmi Orbai Református Egyházmegyében
Tinworks in the Historical Orbai Reformed Diocese

Author(s): Mária Márta Kovács
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: historical tinworks; tin founders; ecclesiestical inventories; Orbai diocese

Summary/Abstract: In Transylvania an important and valorous role had the art of the tin founders. As an expression of a flourishing, artistic trade one can find numerous tinworks in ecclesiastical inventories. The present study gives us a general view of tinworks of the Orbai diocese: forms, techniques of tin founding and ornaments, marks, stylistic evolution. At the beginning, tinworks were seen as luxury objects and only later were accepted for general use. In the Orbai congregations remained different tinworks: tankards, dishes, falcons. The cans are classified in more categories: conic, truncated cone, cylindrical and cylindriform. Plates and dishes had festooneries, thin margins and the falcons were polygonal. Specific for the Transylvanian craftsmen are the engraved flowers and geometric motives. The ornaments of the handles are characterized by fine details, equality of composition and predilection for floral motives. On the piece, the place of the stamps differed from one town to another. For example the workshop from Braşov put their can marks inside the tankard and those from Sighişoara and Sibiu put them on the handle shoulder.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: II
  • Page Range: 185-200
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian