DOI Artikel:
Kriegseisen, Jacek: Srebrny serwis stołowy króla Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego: Przyczynki do biografii i twórczości gdańskiego złotnika Petera von der Rennena
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19890#0194
expressed its grief at the sad event. but it was morę bothered that so
much effort might be wasted, as there was no goidsmith to be found in
Gdańsk who would undertake the task of executing the service for the
fixed datę and in the form designed by Von der Rennen. Nevertheless,
the Council considered the preparations to be so advanced as to try to
keep its promise by purchasing the ordered objects from other
goldsmiths. On the basis of an account for the coronation service,
which has been found at the State Archive in Gdańsk, it can be
ascertained that the set consisted of 258 vessels of a total weight of
1,129 gryynas and 16 and a half skoyetses. The sum paid for it (together
with cases and the materiał for lining) amounted to 33,618 florins and
6 groszes, that is, ąuite a large sum of 9.400 thalers and 59 groszes.
The correspondence between the City Council of Gdańsk and its
residents in Warsaw, which is cited in the paper in an abridged form,
testifies that the commission for the royal coronation service was
given to Gdańsk - the most vigorous craft centre in the Polish
Commonwealth at that time - and that the Council considered Peter
von der Rennen the most competent person to perform such
a prestigious task. Perhaps the goidsmith was even indicated by the
client. as at the same time a coffin reliąuary of St Stanislaus was
ordered for the Wawel cathedral. The contract for the execution of
the reliąuary was madę on 2 May, 1669 by Father Aleksander
Magnuski acting on behalf of the Cathedral Chapter, but Von der
Rennen died soon after, on 30 July of that year. Even if we assume
that the arrangements and preparations for its execution had begun
much earlier, such a short period was not at all sufficient to make as
much as part of the sarcophagus, considering that its completion
datę had been fixed at 1671. Therefore, the ąuestion arises as to who
is the author of the Wawel sarcophagus sińce, for obvious reasons,
it is not the work of Peter von der Rennen. It should be accepted that
the reliąuary of St Stanislaus was wrought in the workshop run by
the widów of Peter von der Rennen. most probably with participation
of their sons trained in their father s workshop as well as the Augsburg
goidsmith Jacob Jager I or II and Peter Rode II.
much effort might be wasted, as there was no goidsmith to be found in
Gdańsk who would undertake the task of executing the service for the
fixed datę and in the form designed by Von der Rennen. Nevertheless,
the Council considered the preparations to be so advanced as to try to
keep its promise by purchasing the ordered objects from other
goldsmiths. On the basis of an account for the coronation service,
which has been found at the State Archive in Gdańsk, it can be
ascertained that the set consisted of 258 vessels of a total weight of
1,129 gryynas and 16 and a half skoyetses. The sum paid for it (together
with cases and the materiał for lining) amounted to 33,618 florins and
6 groszes, that is, ąuite a large sum of 9.400 thalers and 59 groszes.
The correspondence between the City Council of Gdańsk and its
residents in Warsaw, which is cited in the paper in an abridged form,
testifies that the commission for the royal coronation service was
given to Gdańsk - the most vigorous craft centre in the Polish
Commonwealth at that time - and that the Council considered Peter
von der Rennen the most competent person to perform such
a prestigious task. Perhaps the goidsmith was even indicated by the
client. as at the same time a coffin reliąuary of St Stanislaus was
ordered for the Wawel cathedral. The contract for the execution of
the reliąuary was madę on 2 May, 1669 by Father Aleksander
Magnuski acting on behalf of the Cathedral Chapter, but Von der
Rennen died soon after, on 30 July of that year. Even if we assume
that the arrangements and preparations for its execution had begun
much earlier, such a short period was not at all sufficient to make as
much as part of the sarcophagus, considering that its completion
datę had been fixed at 1671. Therefore, the ąuestion arises as to who
is the author of the Wawel sarcophagus sińce, for obvious reasons,
it is not the work of Peter von der Rennen. It should be accepted that
the reliąuary of St Stanislaus was wrought in the workshop run by
the widów of Peter von der Rennen. most probably with participation
of their sons trained in their father s workshop as well as the Augsburg
goidsmith Jacob Jager I or II and Peter Rode II.