Puck i Lębork. Dwa warianty kształtowania się wytwórczości garncarskiej w małych miastach Pomorza Gdańskiego w późnym średniowieczu

The paper explores the characteristics of the pottery production in two urban centres of Gdansk Pomierania — Puck and Lebork. The comparison of these towns shows different proc-esses of the development of the local pottery in the first period after their establishment (from the 1340s to the half of the fifteenth century). In Puck, the traditional ceramic production, which was the continuation of the local early medieval craft, coexisted with the one brought by the settlers arriving to the newly founded town. In Lebork, however, only the latter situation was observed. The analysis of the both models of the local pottery production’s development brings also the question if the discussed cases are the individual phenomena or if similar patterns can be traced in the history of other urban centres in the region. In the paper, only the initial observations are given, as the insufficient research on the pottery production from the other towns makes providing definite conclusions impossible.