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Loštice pottery

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103:. Taking into account the goblet's type and the dates of minting these coins, probably the goblet was made at the turn of the 14th and 15th century. Around the mid 15th century, craftsmen began to produce goblets with a wreath handle (type II – see below). Some of the Loštice goblets had been edged with silver. The manufacture of these goblets ceased sometime between 1530 and 1550, when the handiwork of southern Moravian craftsmen of higher quality replaced them on the market. 146:
The largest number of pottery are mugs with a barrel-shaped body, flat base and various edging. The edging is a period indicative. Very common form is the goblet with blister-surface or made from soft kaolinite clay. Other forms are jugs with a cylindrical or S-shaped neck, bowls with a conical body
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baked in simple furnaces, with combined firing and heating space. Vessels were fired at a temperature almost 1000 °C, getting the "Loštice effect" required more than 1200 °C. The surface tint was light or dark brown-colored.
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The pottery from Loštice have been divided into five basic ceramics categories. The first comprises blister-marked surface ceramics (with the nodules), the second is very well baked, so-called stoneware, the third is made up of soft
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Goblets of type II were very popular thanks to their unusual shape and surface. They have been found in towns and castles of Moravia and Central Europe; their range of occurrence covered the area from
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Typical slim goblets with nodules on the surface (so-called "Loštice effect") and a plain rim first appeared at the beginning of 15th century. One of the oldest examples is the goblet discovered at
203:. Success of the Loštice goblets on the market was an inspiration for potters to devise similar vessels, but these imitations often surpassed the originals in quality. In the area along the 294:
Mackiewicz M., Post-Medieval artistic pottery from excavations of St. Peter's and St. Paul's church on the Cathedral Island in Wroclaw Vratislava Antiqua 17, Wrocław 2012, p. 145.
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Loštice was not the sole site for production of pottery displaying the Loštice effect. Pottery workshops have been discovered in nearby towns and villages Žádlovice,
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and flat base, often decorated with red markings, vessels with a conical body and a club-shaped rim, lids, miniature vessels, tiles, pipes and flagstones.
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about the story of re-discovering of producing process and material of the Loštice goblets and its connection to the Hieronymus Bosch famous painting
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in the last third of the 19th century (first slim brown-colored goblets with nodules in the surface were found in Loštice in 1874).
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Měřínský Z., Přehled typů loštické keramiky, jejich vývoj a datování, Vlastivědný věstník moravský 21, Brno 1969, p. 89–105
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Ceramics from Loštice were decorated with engravings as parallel grooves or notches, raised forms, above all the so-called
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Malíř ďábla: záhadný příběh loštického poháru ("The Devil's Painter: The Mysterious Story of the Loštice Cup")
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Type I is slim with a circular rim, group A having flat walls, whilst in group B walls have curvature.
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Type II has a wreath handle on the body, group A with a cylindrical neck and group B conical neck.
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The most far-famed are the so-called "Loštice goblets", categorised in three basic classes:
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Their existence was gradually forgotten and finally rediscovered with the development of
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Goš V., Loštice. Město středověkých hrnčířů, Opava 2007, p. 56–93, 117–123
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Vessels were turned on rapidly rotating potters' wheels; the potters used
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Gigantic Loštice goblet pictured on the right side of Bosch′s triptych
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The popularity and prevalence of this type of pottery was such in the
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there are known goblets in Loštice style, which were made up with a
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that even an example of it can be found in the famous painting
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Czech
Loštice
Olomouc Region
Czech Republic
Moravia
Central Europe
late Middle Ages
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch

Tovačov
Prague groschen
Charles IV
Wenceslaus IV
archaeology
kaolinite
sand
graphite
pyrite
oxidation
Líšnice
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Poland
Croatia
Hungary
Northern Italy
Danube river
Budapest
majolica
Malíř ďábla: záhadný příběh loštického poháru ("The Devil's Painter: The Mysterious Story of the Loštice Cup")

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