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Biedrońska-Słota, Beata: Namiot turecki w zbiorach Działu Tkanin Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie
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Namiot turecki w zbiorach Działu Tkanin Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie
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A TURKI5H TENT IN THE COELECTIONS OF THE TEXTIEE
DEPARTMENT OF THE NATIONAE MU5EUM IN CRACOW
S ummary
The collections of the Textile Department include a Turkish tent, which has
had a singular role in the history of the Polish Republic. The exterior is covered
with impregnated canvas, while the interior is madę from cotton richly decorated
with canvas and semi-silk appliąue ornamentation. Each of the tent sides is
divided into five sections by arcades supported on columns. Under the arcades,
on the axis lines, are lozenge-shaped medallions filled in with arabesąues and
rounded oblong cartouches bearing inscriptions in Persian.
The tent was probably madę by master craftsmen according to minutely
detailed plans of both the technical aspects of the construction and the composi-
tion of its various sections, which conveyed the symbolic conception in the form
of the inscriptions and decorative details. Similar compositions recur in Turkish
art. The decoration on the ceramic tiling that is considered to be among the fore-
most achievements of Ottoman art is particularly closely related to that on this
tent. The composition that corresponds most nearly to the layout of the ornamen-
tation on the tent is the ceramic decoration dating from around 1550 in the harem
at the Topkapi Pałace. Indeed, the tent dates from the same period. It was used
in Turkey until the time of the Żurawno campaign on the Dniester in 1676, where
it was pitched along with the other tents that madę up the Turkish camp. One of
those present at that battle was Colonel Stanisław Zygmunt Druszkiewicz (1621-
1690). Ali that is known is that after the Battle of Żurawno the tent passed into
the possession of his family. Stanisław Zygmunt Druszkiewicz had a daughter,
and a son, Julian, who died in 1720. The daughter of Julian Druszkiewicz (grand-
daughter of Stanisław) married Stanisław Flawiusz Suffczyński of Łańcuchów
in 1732. As there is nineteenth-century documentation that the tent then belonged
to the Suffczyński family, it is highly likely that it was part of the dowry of Julian
Druszkiewicz’s daughter.
In 1880 the Emperor Franz Joseph I paid a visit to Galicia. The tent was
borrowed from Juliusz Suffczyński in case the royal yisitor should wish to rest dur-
ing the course of the ceremonies at Kołomyja. This event was immortalised by
Tadeusz Rybkowski in his watercolour, one of ten painted by various artists form-
ing a cycle commemorating His Majesty’s progress through Galicia. The tent was
donated to the National Museum in Cracow some time before 1883 by Jan Stecki,
the owner of the Łańcuchów estate after the Suffczyński family. In that year the
historie tent was pitched on Cracow^ Main Sąuare as part of an exhibition orga-
nised to celebrate the two hundredth anniyersary of the Siege of Yienna.
J.T.-K.
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A TURKI5H TENT IN THE COELECTIONS OF THE TEXTIEE
DEPARTMENT OF THE NATIONAE MU5EUM IN CRACOW
S ummary
The collections of the Textile Department include a Turkish tent, which has
had a singular role in the history of the Polish Republic. The exterior is covered
with impregnated canvas, while the interior is madę from cotton richly decorated
with canvas and semi-silk appliąue ornamentation. Each of the tent sides is
divided into five sections by arcades supported on columns. Under the arcades,
on the axis lines, are lozenge-shaped medallions filled in with arabesąues and
rounded oblong cartouches bearing inscriptions in Persian.
The tent was probably madę by master craftsmen according to minutely
detailed plans of both the technical aspects of the construction and the composi-
tion of its various sections, which conveyed the symbolic conception in the form
of the inscriptions and decorative details. Similar compositions recur in Turkish
art. The decoration on the ceramic tiling that is considered to be among the fore-
most achievements of Ottoman art is particularly closely related to that on this
tent. The composition that corresponds most nearly to the layout of the ornamen-
tation on the tent is the ceramic decoration dating from around 1550 in the harem
at the Topkapi Pałace. Indeed, the tent dates from the same period. It was used
in Turkey until the time of the Żurawno campaign on the Dniester in 1676, where
it was pitched along with the other tents that madę up the Turkish camp. One of
those present at that battle was Colonel Stanisław Zygmunt Druszkiewicz (1621-
1690). Ali that is known is that after the Battle of Żurawno the tent passed into
the possession of his family. Stanisław Zygmunt Druszkiewicz had a daughter,
and a son, Julian, who died in 1720. The daughter of Julian Druszkiewicz (grand-
daughter of Stanisław) married Stanisław Flawiusz Suffczyński of Łańcuchów
in 1732. As there is nineteenth-century documentation that the tent then belonged
to the Suffczyński family, it is highly likely that it was part of the dowry of Julian
Druszkiewicz’s daughter.
In 1880 the Emperor Franz Joseph I paid a visit to Galicia. The tent was
borrowed from Juliusz Suffczyński in case the royal yisitor should wish to rest dur-
ing the course of the ceremonies at Kołomyja. This event was immortalised by
Tadeusz Rybkowski in his watercolour, one of ten painted by various artists form-
ing a cycle commemorating His Majesty’s progress through Galicia. The tent was
donated to the National Museum in Cracow some time before 1883 by Jan Stecki,
the owner of the Łańcuchów estate after the Suffczyński family. In that year the
historie tent was pitched on Cracow^ Main Sąuare as part of an exhibition orga-
nised to celebrate the two hundredth anniyersary of the Siege of Yienna.
J.T.-K.