Post will issue a stamp featuring a folk building in Bušanovice

Prague - In the week before Christmas, Czech Post will issue a stamp that evokes a folk house with elements of rural Baroque in Bušanovice in the Prachatice region. It will depict the property with the descriptive number 27, built in 1874 by the well-known folk builder Jakub Bursa. The post office informed ČTK about it.
     The design of the five-crown stamp was created by painter and graphic artist Jan Kavan, who is also credited with other stamps from Czech Post. He has created several stamps for the series "The Beauty of Our Homeland." Kavan's design was engraved by Bohumil Šneider.
     The dominant feature of the stamp is a frontal view of the Bušanovice house, whose gable is adorned with volutes at the edges and the divine eye in the upper semicircular superstructure. The façade of the house continues with a wall, which is divided by flat pilasters into separate areas for the windows, gate, and door, above which is another gable with a niche and volutes.
     Bursa built and worked on the reconstructions of not only large farmsteads but also smaller properties. The most valuable part of his work is the gables of individual façades and gates, which can be seen mainly in Vlachobřezsko, Volyňsko, and Prachatice. In Bušanovice, Bursa's gable on house number 13 from 1860 has been preserved, although it is simpler.
     Bursa covered the gables of houses, barns, and gates with ornamental plastic decoration, for which he mostly drew inspiration from his own imagination and created it on-site from memory without sketching it beforehand. One of the characteristic elements of Bursa's gables was the inscriptions created in the façade and the mention of the year of the house’s construction. The building number 27 in Bušanovice also bears an inscription on the gable that reads "Stalo se nowewistaveni roku léta Páně 1874."