European social processes included the city of Požega. They influenced the social and family life of women in this region. Despite the needs of their family and the fact that the religious life was for them the first concern, they were happy to furnish their home and cared about their outward appearance.
Due to the strengthening of the bourgeois class in the 19th century, women were a common theme of paintings, photographs, and postcards at the beginning of the 20th century. The items that they personally used are preserved in small numbers. This applies especially to those for beautification, which indicates their common use. Fashion accessories, which a woman would have worn or used in society, were significant. The subjects of inheritance were of great visual appeal. Women gave them a personal touch. They decorated fashion details, fans, bookmarks for prayer or hymn book with painted or embroidered motifs.
The tendency to highlight their own tastes and house setup is evident in the purchase of items decorated with religious, floral or other motifs that are exposed from the Biedermeier era (1815th-1848th) in glazed display cabinet, which is often used today as the representative portion antique furniture. Valuable objects made of glass, porcelain, metal or other materials were stored and exhibited in it, which showed the social status of the family and the good taste of the woman who took care of the appearance of her home.
In addition to furniture, the woman chose usable and decorative items in the house which her husband purchased. These were more or less artistically shaped objects made of metal, ceramic, usually purchased from the middle and lower classes, and porcelain from the upper classes.
The surface of glassware was decorated with the woman’s initials, and the best examples were made, purchased or decorated to her honor. Women usually managed to preserve these fragile values due to their care. Glass was extremely significant for Požega and the Požega County, the center of the Craft Glass in the 19th and early 20th century, because this art connected the region with Europe, which supplied itself with glass products in this area.