Sunday Stamps | Céhkorsó

 

This 2022 Hungarian stamp belongs to a 4-stamp set that celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Hungary.

It features a céhkorsó or guild jug from 1872. Guilds were advocacy organizations for traditional craftmanship that played a crucial role in main in maintaining thigh standards whithin the craft industry. In Hungary their golden age spanned from the 17 to the 19th centuries. Guild-related ceramics are characteristic of a very specific geographical area, and are distinguished by their local traits, folk decorative motifs and inscriptions. These earthenware tankards and jugs, employed for wine consumption during celebrations and gatherings, offer an insight into guild life that are unparalleled elsewhere in Europe; a phenomenon classified as a hungaricum (a uniquely Hungarian cultural trait).

Sunday Stamps is dedicated this week to Pottery/China.