Folia Historica 31. (Budapest, 2016)

I. KÖSZÖNTJÜK A 80 ÉVES T. NÉMETH ANNAMÁRIÁT - Gerelyes Ibolya: A 19. századi bécsi műtárgypiac, mint a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum oszmán gyűjteményeinek egyik forrása

facts which date from before the late 17th century, but also those that were made in the 18lh and 19th centuries in the Balkan territories of the Ottoman Empire, when these bear features clearly characteristic of Ottoman/Islamic art.

The study wishes to draw attention to those artefacts which, indubitably and during the 19“’ century, reached the Museum via the Vienna art trade. It discusses three collections of particular relevance from this standpoint: those put together by Miklós Jankovich (1772-1846), István Delhaes (1843-1901), and György Ráth (1828-1905) respectively. To sum up, a number of different strata are discernible in the Ottoman material which passed to the Museum during the 19"' century via the Vienna art trade. Ottoman bronze weights made in the 18th and 19th centuries were obtained from György Ráth's collection in the belief that they were artefacts recovered from the ground. When they were entered in the Museum's acquisitions book, these 'archaeological finds' were described, erroneously, as being from the Roman era. They were, in all likelihood, from the southern border region of historical Hungary, or, possibly, from Ottoman provinces in the Balkan Peninsula.

The Museum's 16lh century silver bowls (cups) that found their way to Vienna as a result of the Austro-Ottoman war of 1787-91 form a special group. They can, perhaps, be linked to relatives of the military officer Josef Philipp Vukassovich (1755-1809) and were later purchased by Miklós Jankovich. Another group consists of a few pieces of 18,h-century jewellery likewise from Ragusa (today Dubrovnik) and afterwards sold in Vienna. Both groups would need additional research. A third group of metalwork artefacts that reached the Museum via Vienna was amassed by István Delhaes: Otto- man-Balkan jewellery made in the 18"’ and 19th centuries. Much of this was collected following the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878, before ending up on the Vienna art market and subsequently in the Museum's holdings.

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