Golden Lining

 Found the other day

this porcelain jewellery box by Hollohaza

in a small not-really-an-antique shop

but a shop that sells old items

mainly cups, plates, glasswear, cutlery,

paintings...

next to Eötvös utca piac (market)

in VI district Budapest 

- there's 1831 in the bottom

but don't know what that means as

Hollohaza was founded in 1777?

- it's from Endre Szasz collection

(1926-2003)

- like a lot his black and white collection

with golden lining

- it's hand-made and 21 carat gold!

Some facts about Endre Szasz:

Szasz's career as a painter developed in 1970,

when the Hungarian authorities allowed him to take up

a contract with a Canadian art gallery.

After four years in Toronto,

he moved to Los Angeles,

where he stayed until the early 1980s.

He had numerous exhibitions in Canada and the United States

- where his paintings fetched high prices -

and also befriended the surrealist painter Salvador Dali,

with whom he shared an agent.

Szasz returned to Hungary in 1982,

and helped to found the arts studio of

the Porcelain factory at Hollohaza.

For several years, he painted,

mostly on porcelain,

and designed furniture.

After this, he lived for a while in Sopron,

finally buying an old manor house near Kaposvár,

in the south of the country,

where he enjoyed life as reportedly

the sole owner of a Rolls-Royce

in communist Hungary. Wov!

By the way this the rose that got

at Dionysos restaurant on Thursday

- it's still fresh!

- usually those marketing roses don't last long