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Amber inkwell.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Gdańsk or Königsberg)Unknown author
Title
Amber inkwell.
label QS:Len,"Amber inkwell."
label QS:Lpl,"Bursztynowy kałamarz."
label QS:Lfr,"Encrier en ambre."
Date 1590s
date QS:P571,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium mica and sepiolite on amber, gilt on silver
Dimensions 7.5 × 14 × 8.5 cm (2.9 × 5.5 × 3.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q686548
Current location
Schatzkammer
Accession number
521
Object history 1590s
date QS:P,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
: commissioned by Sigismund III Vasa, Warsaw

1633: inherited by Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Warsaw
1642: transferred to Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Neuburg an der Donau

1651: inherited by House of Wittelsbach
Notes Decorated with 8 medallions with Christ and Virgin Mary along with unidentified contemporary portraits (2 of them possibly of Sigismund III Vasa and his daughter Anna Maria) and a medallion with Polish Eagle with letter S on his chest. Lock in the form of a winged hart under crown with flowers.
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  • Mieczysław Ge̜barowicz (1978). Dzieła złotnictwa polskiego pochodzenia w skarbcu zamku królewskiego w Monachium. Studia do Dziejów Wawelu. Vol. 4, pp. 308-309
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