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Late gothic tiles of Slavonia from the archaeological collection of the Croatian history museum in Zagreb
Lada Prister
; Hrvatski povijesni muzej
Sažetak
In the archaeological collection of the Croatian History Museum, former the National Museum in Zagreb there are two interesting late Gothic tiles from the eastern part of Slavonia. The tile with esquire angel image derives from Erdut and the tile with deer image has been found in Osijek.
The tile with an angel image was bought for the National Museum in Zagreb in 1906 from Mr Hinko Bator and the tile with deer image was bought from the Antunovic family in Osijek. The tiles have not been published in expert and scientific publications so far. According to the typology they belong to a series of cylindrical niche tiles with perforate and figuredecorated front. The unglazed were made of nice refined clay on a potter's wheel. There are no traces of uneven baking on them. The tile type with the esquire angel image is a frequent find on the mediaeval sites of Croatian inland. According to analogies this tile type dates from the last decade of the 15th century, about 1480. They were made in certain moulds in Hungarian workshops and from there spread into other regions of
the Pannonia lowlands. We cannot exclude the possibility that these tile types were made in small home workshops all over eastern Slavonia on the model of the Hungarian moulds. Further research could estimate share of local domestic masters and workshops in manufacturing the tiles on the model of Hungarian moulds.
The tile from Erdut belonged most probably to a mediaeval fortified town. It was a part of a crenellation of a furnace that heated and decorated the larger room meant for accomodation of the feudalist and his family.
The tile with deer image from Osijek belonged most probably to a crenellationof a furnace of some sacral or secular complex from the second half of the 15th century. A figure-decorated image of a deer cannot be found easily at mediaeval sites. Analogies can be found by the running deer images on floor tiles from Đakovo, Zivkova castle in the Czech republic and Višegrad (Hungary) (Radić M. 2001 Two mediaeval floor tiles from Đakovo, page 75)
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Hrčak ID:
163549
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Datum izdavanja:
6.12.2004.
Posjeta: 653 *