The Moonlight is the most peculiar colour of the Familiar Collection.

It has a special “course of life” and a special importance, as its story – due to its double invention and to the insoluble threads of the fate that repeating itself has given the same gift in the hands of another person – had its begining more than one-hundred years ago.

A mysterious green glaze which with its shine characteristic of the precious metals, with the enigmatic power of the Moon’s light, and its silky splendour, captivates for a long while the spectator of the works of art dressed into the garment of this enchanting glaze. It has a great significance both for the Famiy’s life and also from point of view of the History of Art, and in its name, Moonlight, the Aszalós Family has concealed two symbols of great importance, so that its splenduor could be there not only in the light that gives life to it, but it could be there also in its name.

Éva Aszalós worked out eight yars ago this glaze, whose technology is kept under a secret, just like in the case of the first inventor of this glaze, Vilmos Zsolnay, who as the founder of a Hungarian manufacture of ceramics, gained the world-fame of his factory more than one-hundred years ago thanks to this colour, and gave the name “Eosin”, so “splendour”, to the peculiar glaze. On the one hand the Aszalós Family expresses with the name “Moonlight” its honour toward his work, refering to the fact that the Moon reflecting the light of the Sun includes in itself a splendour of its precedent.

The other symbol conducts to a much more ancient world, that due to the relation between people and the nature, has been living in the language of almost every nations’ culture and art for more thousands of years. In our tales, in our poems and in our legends... Peoples creat instinctively a mysterious wolrd around the Moon and this mystery is living in our mind every times when the Art calls out it from the treasure-chest of its world of symbols. “Moonlight” appeares here as the symbol of the Mysteriousness that this glaze includes in itself also for its own creators.

The Hungarian public could see the “Moonlight” glaze born in the world of the Aszalós Porcelains at more exhibitons: on beautiful figurines, statues and as the adornment of some really special porcelain form.

Some photographs of Statues with the Moonlight glaze in the Familiar Collection: