Traditional Ceramics of Bukovyna of the XIX – XX Centuries: Historical and Cultural aspects (based on the Lviv Scansen Collection)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characterization of traditional ceramics of Bukovyna XIX – XX centuries and its role and place in the interior of the people’s home. This issue is covered taking into account the belonging of certain Bukovyna territories to various ethnographic groups and historical and administrative areas and its presence in the composition of foreign states in different historical periods. The article reveals the migration, historical and cultural processes that influenced plots and ornamental motifs on ceramic objects. The conducted historical-ethnographic and art-study analysis gives grounds to compare the Bukovynian products with pottery and industrial ceramics of the countries of Central and Western Europe. The species and local names and purposes of pottery, regional variations of silhouettes and forms, the dependence of decor on the application of the subject, the semantics of individual elements of the ornament, and the peculiarities of the technology are also studied.

Keywords: Bukovyna, traditional dwelling, interior, dishes, cell, ceramics, drawing, glaze, faience,style