Mighty mice: Zsolany vase taken to €24,000
In 1896, Vilmós Zsolnay, director of the eponymous ceramics factory in the south-western Hungarian city of Pécs in Hungary, presented his newly invented Eosin lustre glaze at the National Millenium Exhibition in Budapest.
The iridescent metallic colours of the glaze made Zoslnay ceramics immensely popular, not least be…