Abstract
The direct information about far-away cultures offered new impulses in the interpretation of exotic topics, the result of which was an international wave of Japonisme at the end of the 19th century. In Central Europe, the real and more massive desire for Japanese topics can be observed almost in the same period which not only gradually affected historical centers (Wien, Prague, Budapest) but also - and more and more often - we can see their influence on peripheries where they came to infiltrate into local artistic production (in Galicia or Hungarian and Bohemian countryside).
Especially these peripheries see the development of a new response to such Japanese style motifs. Simultaneously, a long-term process of derivation was started, and such significant and powerful impetuses were turned into a completely new and modern artistic impulse.
The exotic motifs spread out to Austro-Hungarian glass and ceramic ware production very quickly, especially after the Vienna world exposition in 1873. All such activities correspond with the European boom of Japonisme when different Japanese motifs spread out into production of porcelain, ceramic or glass manufactories.
The models for such decoration were brought from the older Japanese porcelain made in Arita, old Japanese woodblock prints, traditional books, and other sources.