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DOI Artikel:Kasprzak, Aleksandra J.: The Radziwiłłs of Nieśwież: a contribution to industrial "Mecenate" in the first half of the 18th century
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In 1736-1743 the glassworks in Naliboki was rebuilt again. The idea was
to modernise the workshops and create separate sections under one supervisor.
In the late thirties and the beginning of the forties new craftsmen from Saxony
arrived, such as metallurgists and engravers.11 During short, one or three years’
contracts, these artisans not only madę glass on special commissions but they
also taught subseąuent generations of craftsmen. In 1738 Anna Radziwiłł
established a new water polisher’s shop of semiprecious Stones in nearby
Jankowicze whereto some of the cutters previously working in the glassworks
were transferred. An assortment of products of the Jankowicze polisher’s shop
was not different from the products of the polisher’s shops in Biała. Next year,
in the same estate, the Princess built an efficient water-driven sawmill and an
iron foundry. There was also an independent sculptor-stucco studio. Initially,
in 1737 the Princess planned to locate a mirror works in Jankowicze.
In April 1738 faience makers13 14 from Saxony were brought to Biała, Anna
Radziwiłła residential town, who established a faience manufacture, also called
a “Dutch factory”. Possibly, the manufacture was meant to be transformed into
a porcelain manufacture, as most of the workers employed there were artisans
who knew the secret of making porcelain. The faience manufacture produced
mainly tableware - dinner sets and services for coffee, tea and chocolate,
usually with heraldic or fashionable floral ornaments, for several dozen
people.
In 1737 Anna Radziwiłł located the first" mirror manufacture10 in the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in her estate in Urzecze near Słuck. This manufacture
became a nucleus of the third, after Biała and Naliboki, manufacture-mdustrial
centre. Around 1740 in Urzecze or in nearest surroundings apart from the
mirror works, consisting of glassworks, a water cutter’s shop, a facet shop,
an aufmundirer’s shop,1 the Princess located an iron foundry, a beli foundry,
a faience manufacture or a potter’s workshop and a water polisher’s shop
of semiprecious Stones,14 18 a sawmill in Pohost and in nearby Słuck a weaving-
-mill.19 While establishing the mirror works the Princess once again used
13 Kasprzak, “Hutnicy...”, op. cit.
14 Z. Przyrembel, Farfurnie polskie dawne i dzisiejsze, Lwów 1936, pp. 31—47; M. Staszewska,
M. Jeżewska, Polski fajans, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1978, pp. 19-21; amongthe first
craftsmen working in Biała were Fryderyk Seydel and Raburg, as well as Julius Gottlieb Stadler,
turner and moulder, employed in 1740.
15 In the eighteenth century this was the only mirror works in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and
in the nineteenth century the only mirror works in the western guberniyas of the Russian empire.
16 Z. Kamieńska, “Fachowcy cudzoziemscy w manufakturach magnackich XVIII w. [Manufaktura
urzecka Radziwiłłów]”, Przegląd Historyczny, XLIII, 1952, 3-4, pp. 518-535; eadem, “Szlifiernia
i polernia szkła płaskiego w Urzeczu Radziwiłłowskim w XVIII i na początku XIX w.”, Kwartal-
nik Historii Kultury Materialnej PAN, VI, 1958, 4, pp. 525-559; eadem, Manufaktura szklana
w Urzeczu 1737-1846, Warszawa 1964.
17 A part of a manufacture where mirrors in looking-glass frames were designed and produced.
18 It was probably active only in the seventeen forties as it was not listed in an inventory madę in
the sixties.
19 It probably operated only in 1738-1746, providing the garrison in Słuck of six thousand men,
both soldiers and Radziwiłłs’ militia.
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to modernise the workshops and create separate sections under one supervisor.
In the late thirties and the beginning of the forties new craftsmen from Saxony
arrived, such as metallurgists and engravers.11 During short, one or three years’
contracts, these artisans not only madę glass on special commissions but they
also taught subseąuent generations of craftsmen. In 1738 Anna Radziwiłł
established a new water polisher’s shop of semiprecious Stones in nearby
Jankowicze whereto some of the cutters previously working in the glassworks
were transferred. An assortment of products of the Jankowicze polisher’s shop
was not different from the products of the polisher’s shops in Biała. Next year,
in the same estate, the Princess built an efficient water-driven sawmill and an
iron foundry. There was also an independent sculptor-stucco studio. Initially,
in 1737 the Princess planned to locate a mirror works in Jankowicze.
In April 1738 faience makers13 14 from Saxony were brought to Biała, Anna
Radziwiłła residential town, who established a faience manufacture, also called
a “Dutch factory”. Possibly, the manufacture was meant to be transformed into
a porcelain manufacture, as most of the workers employed there were artisans
who knew the secret of making porcelain. The faience manufacture produced
mainly tableware - dinner sets and services for coffee, tea and chocolate,
usually with heraldic or fashionable floral ornaments, for several dozen
people.
In 1737 Anna Radziwiłł located the first" mirror manufacture10 in the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in her estate in Urzecze near Słuck. This manufacture
became a nucleus of the third, after Biała and Naliboki, manufacture-mdustrial
centre. Around 1740 in Urzecze or in nearest surroundings apart from the
mirror works, consisting of glassworks, a water cutter’s shop, a facet shop,
an aufmundirer’s shop,1 the Princess located an iron foundry, a beli foundry,
a faience manufacture or a potter’s workshop and a water polisher’s shop
of semiprecious Stones,14 18 a sawmill in Pohost and in nearby Słuck a weaving-
-mill.19 While establishing the mirror works the Princess once again used
13 Kasprzak, “Hutnicy...”, op. cit.
14 Z. Przyrembel, Farfurnie polskie dawne i dzisiejsze, Lwów 1936, pp. 31—47; M. Staszewska,
M. Jeżewska, Polski fajans, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1978, pp. 19-21; amongthe first
craftsmen working in Biała were Fryderyk Seydel and Raburg, as well as Julius Gottlieb Stadler,
turner and moulder, employed in 1740.
15 In the eighteenth century this was the only mirror works in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and
in the nineteenth century the only mirror works in the western guberniyas of the Russian empire.
16 Z. Kamieńska, “Fachowcy cudzoziemscy w manufakturach magnackich XVIII w. [Manufaktura
urzecka Radziwiłłów]”, Przegląd Historyczny, XLIII, 1952, 3-4, pp. 518-535; eadem, “Szlifiernia
i polernia szkła płaskiego w Urzeczu Radziwiłłowskim w XVIII i na początku XIX w.”, Kwartal-
nik Historii Kultury Materialnej PAN, VI, 1958, 4, pp. 525-559; eadem, Manufaktura szklana
w Urzeczu 1737-1846, Warszawa 1964.
17 A part of a manufacture where mirrors in looking-glass frames were designed and produced.
18 It was probably active only in the seventeen forties as it was not listed in an inventory madę in
the sixties.
19 It probably operated only in 1738-1746, providing the garrison in Słuck of six thousand men,
both soldiers and Radziwiłłs’ militia.
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