Habaner Faience – (Pottery) Habaner Ware is a broad term that refers to earthenware made by peasant potters for about 140 years in central Europe (Bohemia, Monrovia) from the end of the 16th century to the 1730s.
Habanerware is the most important national phenomenon in the history of European ceramics. Moravian Anabaptists, known as Habaner, produced faience for about 140 years, from the end of the 16th century to the 1730s. After that it merged with Moravian and Slovakian folk pottery. There is a collection in Budapest that is the largest in the world and the second largest is in Prague and it is unique primarily for its earliest Moravian pieces made between 1590 and 1620. The dishes, jugs and tankards decorated with simple emblems and vegetative motifs bear strong traces of Italian Renaissance influence. Pieces produced in the third quarter of the 17th century with inscriptions and almost without exception dated, belong to the top category of world ceramic treasures.
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