Lorentz, Stanisław: Guide to museums and collections in Poland (Warsaw, 1974)

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irom Ryszard Stanisiaw Ryszard, and many others. In 19IS, the
Museum acqutred a very valuabie collectton of old Potish nobleman's
waist sashes (over 200 specimens) from the former Fotocki col-
lections in the palace "Under the Rams" in Cracow and in Krze-
szowice — which were confiscated. The collection comprises over
50,000 items in the field of Polish and foreign handicraft and art
industry. For want oi space, the collections in the main buiMing
are at present shown only at temporary exhibitions. A part of them
is exhibited permanently in the branches of the Museum: in the
Museum in Lowicz (Baroque) and in the palace museums at Wila-
now, Uazienki and Niebordw (in particuiar: furniture, clocks, sil-
*verware, bronzes, fabrics, etc.); also in other museums, such as
those of Kieice, Baranow, Malbork etc.
The most valuable objects include:
Mediaeval: a late-Romanesque sacramental chalice (about
1230), the chaiice and paten oi Prince Conrad of Mazovia
from about 1240; Limoges and Rhineland enamels from the
12th and 13th centuries; a herma of St. Sigismund from
about 1350; a herma of St. Dorothea from about 1420—30;
Gothic liturgical vessels from the 14th—16th centuries; tin
objects; polychrome and inlaid-work chests; Italian samites
from Lucca (14th century); Venice cloths oi gold from the
15th century; Gothic embroideries; Byzantine, French and
Italian diptychs and triptychs of ivory from the 14th and
15th centuries; Late Gothic sacramental chalice from
1515—20; a collection of jewelry from the early Middle Ages
to the 19th century; Persian fai'ence from the 12th—15th
centuries, and Spanish-Moresque faience from the 15th—16th
centuries; Polish ceramic tiles from the 15th century.
Renaissance: foreign and Polish furniture; tapestries' —
mostly made in Brussels, including four from the collection
of King Sigismund Augustus; a tapestry with the coat of
arms of the Chalecki family, brocades, damasks, samites,
embroideries; specimens of goldsmith's trade and the chalice
of Marcin Kromer from Frombork (1568); metal objects
including a lock with figurative sculpture attributed to Ben-
venuto Cellini; Mussulman and European ceramics.
17th-century Baroque — foreign and Polish furniture; tapes-
tries; goldsmith's art — 16 epergnes with the images of
Polish kings by Mackensen from Gdansk; Siupsk candlesticks,
clocks, foreign and Polish ceramics and glassware. Poiish,
European and Oriental tapestries. 18th-century Baroque,
Rococo and Neo-Classicism -— foreign and Polish furniture,
including that of Kolbuszowa (among other pieces, a large
sideboard with coats of arms of the Wielopolski family,
1761); furniture from the Royal Castle designed by V. Louis;
a tapestry offered to Stanislaw Leszczynski by the city of
Nancy, tapestries from the Radziwiil manufactory at Kore-
licze, tapestries by the Ogihski manormanufactoryatSoko-
Ibw, of the Stroynowski manufactory at Horochow, etc.;
Oriental carpets and silk fabrics; a collection of over 300 old
Polish nobleman's waist sashes from various domestic and
foreign manufactories; about 10,000 specimens of foreign and
Polish goldsmithery, including a large collection of Warsaw
silver; jewelry, the coronation regalia of Augustus III and
Marie-Josephine, the coronation sword (1764) and aquamarine
sceptre (1792) of Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski; French
bronze objects purchased for the Royal Castle; clocks from
various domestic and foreign manufactories; foreign cera-
mics — including especially valuable Meissen porcelain
(Bottger, Kandler), and Polish ceramics (Biala Podlaska, Bel-

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