Cachepot from the original furnishings of the György Ráth Villa

The round foot supports a bulging flowerpot. The narrow rim is covered with a broad copper band. The surface is enameled in bluish, violet, greenish shades. It is probably one of those pieces with which J. Rapoport won gold medal at the 1902 Turin International Applied Arts Exhibition. Together with the floor vase (Cat.No. 2.121), this flowerpot is likely to have belonged to the furniture of György Ráth's former mansion at 10 Városligeti fasor. A pot of similar shape, supported by three ball feet can be recognized on illustrations of the large drawing room, on the table, in Radisics 1906 after p. 40. (see Horváth 1992b p. 10 the same photo in Magyar Iparművészet Vol. 9, 1906, p. 54.). The inventory of the Ráth György Museum mentions the enameled Rapoport flowerpot of the large drawing room, under No. 95 in the detailed list of item 848. If the exhibited flowerpot is identical with the one mentioned in that inventory, it lacks the bottom part of the setting.