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Porcelain Manufacture Jsc.ZSOLNAY

More than Art

„It’s More than Manufacture

Bachar Najari (Factory owner)

It’s Art AcademyIt’s ZSOLNAY”

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HistoryThe Zsolnay brand has stood for tradition, individuality, artistic value, and constantrenewal for over 160 years. Throughout its long history, it always managed to createsomething new and of fundamental importance to the current era. It has playeda pioneering role both technologically and with regard to artistic techniques, andmanaged to attract the most renowned contemporary scientists, artists, and architects.

The story of Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture Jsc. started in Pécs, in the year 1853. It wasthen that Miklós Zsolnay turned the hard tile manufactory of Lukafa into ZsolnayHard Tile Manufactory. After the company was incorporated, Zsolnay transferredthe company to his son, Ignác, in 1854, and had the original articles of incorporationamended. The workshop that Ignác Zsolnay led for 10 years had rudimentary equipment,and was designed to utilise manual power. It employed impoverished potters(around 8 to 10 of them) who had produced their wares for the local market, andwere unable to compete with mass-produced goods. The company made stonewaredishes, architectural ceramics, and water pipes.

The workshop was struggling with lack of capital, development, and automation,and it had all but failed in the face of stiff competition on the market. It was savedfrom being sold off at an auction by Ignác’s brother, Vilmos Zsolnay, who took overthe company in 1865, after spending a year as a silent partner. After that, the workshopdeveloped into a world-famous factory. In the mid-1870s, the company had between 15 and 20 labourers. The main driving forces behind its development were foreign experts and the Zsolnay family. Both Vilmos and his children, Teréz, Júlia, and Miklós took an active part in improvingthe quality of the products, expanding their range, and establishing and maintainingcustomer relationships. Experimentation and development became continuous,and the workshop became so much a part of the family’s life that they even builttheir own homes on the premises. Thanks to their relentless efforts and the perfecttechnique and beauty of ivory glazing and high-fired decoration, the company sooncaught up with the best in contemporary ceramics industry, and became the first factoryto produce artistic ceramics in Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

The Hungarian and Persian style decorations designed by Teréz and Júlia Zsolnay in 1874 remained the most characteristic patterns used by Zsolnay until the end of the 1880s, and they boosted the reputation of Hungarian ceramics both within and without the country.Miklós Zsolnay took over the management of the company after his father’s death inMarch 1900. He was a highly skilled and well-educated businessman who spoke severallanguages, and he redefined production in the factory to ensure maximum utilisationand to guarantee the maximum possible profit. Thanks to the new businesshe attracted, the Zsolnay factory managed to solidify its position on the domesticand international markets thanks to the addition of lucrative architectural ceramicsand industrial porcelain products to range of the decorative pieces, which were lessprofitable.

Although 1,400 new patterns were developed between 1900 and 1902, along withseveral new forms of glazing, Miklós’s period of management was characterised bythe predominance of industrial production. By 1910, the production of artistic anddecorative objects received a lot less attention. To satisfy the demands of contemporaryinfrastructural developments, the factory focussed on the production of architecturalceramics, stoves, pipes, and insulation.

During World War I, the production of decorative objects and architectural ceramicsall but stopped completely. They were replaced by industrial porcelain, especiallyelectrical insulation, which was used by the army. The global economic crisis andimpoverishment that characterised the period after the war, along with the loss ofraw material resources as a result of the new political and customs borders had avery adverse effect on the Zsolnay factory. The problems were exacerbated by MiklósZsolnay’s illness, which was becoming increasingly more serious.

When Miklós died in 1922, the factory was taken over by his nephews, whom he hadadopted, and who had filled managerial positions for several years by then. The postwarperiod was characterised by slow development, a complete reorganisation, andthe systematic introduction of electrical machinery. This coincided with phasing outof porcelain faience and the launching of the manufacturing of porcelain. The company’ssurvival was secured by converting to the production of porcelain, so porcelainkitchenware was soon added to the range of porcelain insulation products.

In the first few years of government control, the primary focus was on renovating thebuildings damaged in the war and ensuring the continuity of production. During thefirst five-year plan, the ‘Zsolnay’ Porcelain Factory Nationalised Company of Pécs, asit was then known, made mostly industrial porcelain. Thanks to electrification andindustrial development efforts, the production of utility and ornamental dishes wasresumed in 1953, and the first steps towards designing a new kind of pyrogranitewere taken. In 1955, the stove and architectural ceramics businesses were revived.In 1963, the company lost its independent status, and was merged into the NationalCompany for Fine Ceramics under the name of Pécs Porcelain Factory.

The history of the factory complex is intertwined not only with those of a city rich in historical and cultural tradition and of an exceptionally talented family, but also of the whole of Hungary. The name of the Zsolnay Family and the depiction of the five towers after which the city was named in the Middle Ages have become known and recognised all across Europe and around the world during the periods when industry and commerce were not restrained by borders, social and economic development were inspired by a desire for progress, and the unobstructed blossoming of culture and the arts. With it’s amazing history, and importance in art and culture of Hungary, in 2014 Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactue Jsc. has awarded by the state of Hungary with the highest price, Zsolnay became a HUNGARICUM!

EosinThis is Zsolnay’s most unique product, and theglazing technique used is inimitable. Every objectis unique and irreproducible.Eosin was developed in the 1890s by VilmosZsolnay, with the help of Lajos Petrik, the Principalof the Industrial School of Budapest, andof Vince Wartha, a Professor at the Universityof Technology. The name derives from theGreek “eos” (flush of dawn), in reference to thepale red colour of the end-product. In additionto a range of eosin colours, several finishingtechniques were also developed at the ZsolnayFactory, including hand-painting, etched, andmarbled. Eosin products were first produced in1893. The technology of making this colourfuland iridescent glazing is a closely guarded secretto this day.It is used to create decorative objects and buildingornaments of various sizes. As the birthof eosin coincided with the emergence of artnouveau around the turn of the 19th and 20thcenturies, the new forms and decorative motifswere used to full effect by world-famous artistssuch as Sándor Apáti Abt, Lajos Mack, GézaNikelszky, and József Rippl-Rónai, who createdsome truly astounding works of art using thistechnique.

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PorcelainThe decoratice porcelain objects and wonderfultableware are easily recognised by their ivorycolour. They are made using a unique and plasticdecoration technique, burnt at a very hightemperature.Vilmos Zsolnay was inspired by the fine materialof Chinese porcelain and the richness ofthe colours of their glazing. He was committedto refining the base materials, and spent yearssearching for new substances and experimentingwith innumerable kinds of glazing. Hedeveloped a new, softer glazing, and a noveldecoration process to match it. The rich coloursof the motifs used to decorate the body of theobjects, originally made of porcelain and faienceand covered with a soft porcelain coating,are unique in the whole world. This new glazingtechnique is also characterised by a plasticityto its decorative motifs, achieved as a resultof the colouring mixed into the porcelain glazing.While these items were originally madeof porcelain-faience, a material that combinedthe best features of porcelain and faience, theyare now made exclusively out of porcelain. Theeasily recognisable ivory glazing and the decoration technique, however, have remained unchanged. For the development of the porcelain glazing technology, Vilmos Zsolnay has been awarded the french Legion of Honour

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PorcelainTableware

54 55Spring9100/178

Dinner service: 25 piece / 302019100001781Mocha service: 9 piece / 302219100001781Tea service: 9 piece / 302319100001781Cake service: 7 piece / 302449100001781Sandwich service: 7 piece / 302459100001781Salad service: 7piece / 302419100001781

56 57Summer9100/183

Dinner service: 25 piece / 302019100001831Mocha service: 9 piece / 302219100001831Tea service: 9 piece / 302319100001831Sandwich service: 7 piece / 302459100001831Salad service: 7 piece / 302419100001831

58 59Autumn9100/176


60 61Sissy9100/144


62 63Distance9100/3274

Dinner service: 25 piece / 202019100032741Mocha service: 9 piece / 202219100032741Tea service: 9 piece / 202319100032741Cake service: 7 piece / 202449100032741Sandwich service: 7 piece / 202459100032741Salad service: 7 piece / 202419100032741

64 65Olive9100/3290


66 67Phoenix9100/7005

Dinner service: 25 piece / 302019170070051Mocha service: 9 piece / 302219100070051Tea service: 9 piece / 302319100070051

68 69Butterfly9335/026


70 71Cornflower9335/059


72 73Baroque 1.9335/6026


74 75Pompadour I.9335/6100


76 77Pompadour III.9335/6074


78 79Baroque 2.9335/9257


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PirograniteA lot of buildings erected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, typically built in the art nouveau style, were decorated using Zsolnay ceramics products. To this day, they bear silent witness to the durability of pirogranite. Pyrogranite’ refers to a range of ceramics developed by the Zsolnay company in the early 1880s. The name is a combinationof ‘pyro’, which refers to the high temperature at which the products are burnt, and ‘granite’, which signifies durability. This porous material resists acids and sub-zero temperatures, which means that it can endure damp, cold, and the polluted city air. As a result, it is ideal for decorating buildings, roof tiling, and making ornamental objects to be displayed indoors or outdoors, or stoves and fireplaces.

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Interior designCeramic Wallpanel

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Angkor Temple Complex, CambodiaMaterial: Interrior glazed ceramicsProduction: Manufactural

96 97Oman Desert sand, Oman Material: Interrior glazed ceramicsProduction: Manufactural

98 99

Valetta Fort Castrum Maris, MaltaMaterial: Interrior glazed ceramicsProduction: Manufactural

100 101

Wyoming Devil’s Tower / Basalt hill, USAMaterial: Interrior glazed ceramicsProduction: Manufactural

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Marmalada Dolomites, ItalyMaterial: Interrior glazed ceramicsProduction: Manufactural

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37th. Zsolnay Vilmos street, Pécs Hungary, 7630

Tel: +36 (72) 507-600Fax: +36 (72) 507-604

E-mail: [email protected]

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