PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Žegklitz, Jaromír
TI  - Stove tiles from the workshop of potter Adam Špaček and Prague Castle Die Kacheln aus der Werkstatt des Töpfers Adam Špaček und die Prager Burg
DP  - 2025 May 1
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 2--32
VI  - 40
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2024.2.01
IS  - 02316056
AB  - This text follows on from a larger work (Žegklitz 2019) on the Renaissance Prague pottery workshop of Adam Špaček, focusing on the rela­tionship of its tile production to the surroundings of Prague Castle. Newly discovered written evidence proves Adam Špaček's involvement in the construction of the stove in the former Rožmberk Palace, and also confirms that the luxury oven tiles, found here in the past, originated in Špaček's workshop. The same workshop also came into contact with another powerful family from Pernštejn, in whose palace, adjacent to the Rožmberk Palace, terracotta building elements with rich embossed decoration were found, identical to that on the stove tiles produced by Špaček's workshop. Similar embossed motifs were also identified on the Sigismund bell from St. Vitus Cathedral, made byTomáš Jaroš in 1549. These parallels lead to the hypothesis that Špaček's workshop may have been the place where, in addition to the moulds for the stove tiles, the moulds for the Perštejn terracottas and for part of the embossed decoration of the Sigismund bell were produced.