Typology and Chronology of Early Modern Pottery in Buda

Abstract

Bencze and Adrienn Papp presented in great detail the finds that came to light from a pit excavated at No. 17 Dísz tér. Based on the closely datable Iznik faience items and cooking pots with late medieval parallels, the backfill of the feature could be dated with great certainty to the late 16 th century. 25 Herta Bertalan published ceramic finds from several sites in Óbuda. Of these, special mention should be made of the unfinished pieces discovered in a pit at No. 20 Mókus utca, which were coated with slip and fired once, but not yet glazed. Fragments with the same profile are known from several places in the settlement. Based on their shapes and decoration, however, contrary to the author's opinion, I would rather date them to the Post-Ottoman Period. 26 Ibolya Gerelyes presented the Chinese celadon wares found in the area of the Royal Palace of Buda. 27 Dorottya Nyékhelyi published an inscribed pedestalled bowl from Szent György Square, decorated with engraving under the glaze. The Arabic script was deciphered by Mihály Dobrovits, and his interpretation was later completed by Balázs Sudár. 28 Judit Zádor's study on Pest is particularly valuable for us because, in addition to two extremely well-dated groups of finds from the Early Ottoman period (5 Realátanoda utca, the courtyard of Károlyi Palace), she also described an industrial area (1-11 Bástya utca), including the remains of a blacksmith's workshop. 29 2005 saw the publication of one of the most fundamental scholarly works on Early Modern Pottery from Buda, the monograph Fundkomplexe des 15-17. Jahrhunderts aus dem Burgpalast von Buda by Imre Holl. The volume contains a description of medieval and Ottoman-Turkish cesspits and rubbish pits excavated between 1948 and 1960 in the area of the Royal Palace of Buda, as well as the archaeological material found in them. Furthermore, it gives a detailed evaluation of some groups of finds. 30 In addition to presenting the artefacts using lots of photographs, the author added many useful, new pieces of information to scholarship. He focused specifically on Middle and Far Eastern wares, faience, porcelain, and celadon items. The groups set up by him provide an excellent overview of the main types of pottery occurring in Buda and in the area of Ottoman Hungary in general, which he also discussed in his study published in the 2006 volume of Budapest Régiségei. 31 In the same volume of the annual, Judit Benda published a potter's workshop discovered at Nos. 21-25 Kapás utca, which operated during the last third of the 18 th century. Her work is considered to be essential, since we previously had no information of any Early Modern/Modern facility of this kind in the city. 32 In the 2007 volume of Budapest Régiségei, Katalin Éder published faience wares predominantly made in Iznik, which were discovered in the Víziváros suburbium of Buda (15-23 Kacsa utca and 16 Ganz utca), while Szabolcs Kondorosy discussed pipes coming from the same district. 33 In 2011, Anikó Tóth examined and interpreted the entire...