Professional paper

Pottery Tradition in the Crikvenica Region

Mirjana Randić

Abstract

Traditional pottery in Croatia is known by the use of a manual or leg driven potter’s wheel and the socalled ‘women’s ceramics’ without the use of a potter’s wheel. The pottery tradition of Crikvenica belongs to pottery made on a hand driven pottery wheel. With the disappearance of cooking on an open fire the need for pottery products decreased and the pottery tradition gradually died out. In the article are described the processes of prepar ing the mixtures, shaping, drying, baking and hardening, originally recorded in 1936 and 1957 according to the narrations of two of the last potters of the Croatian Littoral. They were Ivan Gržičić and Mihovil Brnjac who in the early decades of the 20th century were making pottery products in the Crikvenica settlements of Ladvić i.e. Lončari and Vidi. They sold their products over the wide region of the Croatian Littoral and Gorski Kotar. In 1992 in the field research of the Ethnological Museum of Zagreb conversations were published with the grandchildren of the forementioned, and the then already deceased potters, in order to complete the picture the pottery production and sales of the Crikveni ca region and to document the memories of today’s population of Crikvenica about this worthy tradition.

Keywords

Crikvenica; pottery tradition; hand wheel; ethnology

Hrčak ID:

147514

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/147514

Publication date:

15.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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