The Church
of the Reformed
Tourists
often stop in surprise at the show-case where the famous plates ornamented
with crayfish are exhibited on the second floor of the castle's Kuny Domonkos
Museum. The guide remark that it was not Tata where these reliefs were
invented: the originals upon which the local masters prepared their plates
had been created in Vienna. They mention Mór Farkasházy Fischer, who established
a pottery at his birthplace in Tata then moved to Herend to make his former
colleague Vince Stingl's factory flourish. The ceramist family remained
faithful to their profession for generations.
Later, there were other unsuccesful attempts to establish potteries in
Tata. the art of clay-forming was represented by the simple potters in
the town.
By now potters, together with a lot of old professions, have lost their
orginal role. It is also true that crayfish have died out from the nearby
waters.
