PT Journal
AU Zegklitz, J
TI Stove tiles from the workshop of potter Adam Spacek and Prague Castle Die Kacheln aus der Werkstatt des Topfers Adam Spacek und die Prager Burg
SO Staleta Praha
PY 2025
BP 2
EP 32
VL 40
IS 2
DI 10.56112/sp.2024.2.01
WP https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202402-0001.php
DE Prague Castle - 16th century - potter Adam Spacek - oven tiles - Rozmberk Palace - Pernstejn Palace - burgrave brickyard - Tomas Jaros - Sigismund Bell
SN 02316056
AB This text follows on from a larger work (Zegklitz 2019) on the Renaissance Prague pottery workshop of Adam Spacek, focusing on the rela­tionship of its tile production to the surroundings of Prague Castle. Newly discovered written evidence proves Adam Spacek's involvement in the construction of the stove in the former Rozmberk Palace, and also confirms that the luxury oven tiles, found here in the past, originated in Spacek's workshop. The same workshop also came into contact with another powerful family from Pernstejn, in whose palace, adjacent to the Rozmberk Palace, terracotta building elements with rich embossed decoration were found, identical to that on the stove tiles produced by Spacek's workshop. Similar embossed motifs were also identified on the Sigismund bell from St. Vitus Cathedral, made byTomas Jaros in 1549. These parallels lead to the hypothesis that Spacek's workshop may have been the place where, in addition to the moulds for the stove tiles, the moulds for the Perstejn terracottas and for part of the embossed decoration of the Sigismund bell were produced.
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