The aim of this paper is to provide the results of a preliminary investigation into the ceramic technology of the Lengyel culture from Belvárdgyula-Szarkahegy, Hungary. By the means of macroscopic and petrographic analysis the technology of different vessel types is compared in order to assess possible similairities and differences in their manufacturing. The results of the analysis are compared with the results of other Lengyel culture settelments from Szemely-Hegyes and Zengővárkony that are situated within the same geographical area. At Belvárdgyula a relationship between vessel types and technological practices was observed in that consumption vessels have very fine fabrics and household wares usually have a much coarser fabrics. In assessing the fabric groups it seems that the raw materials of the different vessel types are very similar although potters treated them differently, for example through levigation and different types of tempering. There also seems to be a relationship between painting and vessel types in that only consumption wares are painted and coarse wares are not. The most common temper is clay pellet or argillaceous rock fragments that are characteristic for both consumption and household wares. The implication of the results from Belvárdgyula becomes more clear when the technological practices are compared between the sites. In the three sites many similarities can be recognized in technological practices. The most striking similarity is that the consumption wares not only look similar typologically but the technology of most of the examined vessels seems identical (very fine, probably levigated clay, slab building, firing under fully reduced circumstances). A fundamental difference between the sites is that at Zengővárkony coarse tempering appears among the consumption wares while this type of tempering among consumption wares is not present at Szemely, and at Belvárdgyula coarse tempering is also characteristic for household wares. A further difference between the sites is that at Szemely the use of grog for tempering is common, but this practice was not observed at Zengővárkony and Belvárdgyula. In the latter site, instead clay pellets and/or argillacecous rock fragments seem to be the main temper. Another interesting feature of the technological comparison is that organic tempering was present at Szemely but could not be observed at Zengővárkony and Belvárdgyula. The results clearly show that within consumption wares not only was it important that they should look similar, but it was also required to make them in a similar manner. Alongside the technological similarities the observed differences also show that within similar vessel types, mainly within household wares, potters used different recipes.