Ferenc Veress (1832-1916)
1874-1881
Photoceramic: lidded tobacco jar. with portraits of a little girl; one picture shows a photo album on a stand

Photoceramic, screenshot from 3D model
23.5 cm (height) 16.2 cm (opening diameter)
 
Hungarian National Museum
Collection:TF / viselet (attire), Inventory number: 90.592
 
Place of origin/creation: Kolozsvár
 
Photoceramics—photographs fired onto the surface of porcelain, stoneware, or glass—is one of the few photographic techniques that made the photograph an inalienable part of the object, and thus, in a sense, three-dimensional.
 
The most outstanding master of Hungarian photoceramic production was Ferenc Veress of Kolozsvár. The National Museum preserves 27 of his works, of which 24 items enrich the collection of the Historical Photo Department. Among these, this tobacco jar stands out; in one of its photographs, a charming little girl holds an open photo album placed on a small table. On the base of the object, a fired-on seal with the circular inscription "VERESS F. FÉNYKÉPMŰTERMIBŐL KOLOZSVÁRT" (FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO OF F. VERESS, KOLOZSVÁR) containing the photographer's monogram in the center indicates the maker.
 
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