H. Kolba Judit szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum Guide 2 - From the Foundation of the State until the Expulsion of the Ottomans - The history of Hungary in the 11th to 17th centuries (Budapest, 2005)

ROOM 7 - Transylvania and Royal Hungary (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Judit H. Kolba)

59. Embroidered saddle of Sámuel Teleki, Transylvania, 2nd half of the 16th century ter's mark (initials of their names) and the hallmarks, the coat of arms of their town. Thus the purity standard of silver was guaranteed. In every bigger town of Transylvania we find guilds of goldsmiths and silversmiths going back centuries, but of them the most famous centres were the court workshop in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) and the guilds of the two Saxon towns Nagyszeben (Sibiu) and Brassó (Brasov). The outstanding items displayed can be linked to György Rákóczi I. His court goldsmith, István Brózer, made the gold chalice, decorated with eighteen scenes of the Passion, which the prince donated to the renovated Farkas utca church in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) (Fig. 61). The large tankard was also ordered by him for the Reformed Church of Mád. The coats of arms of well-known noble families decorate the following items: display plates of Mihály Teleki and his wife Judit Vér, and the set of beakers fitting into each other with the twin coat of arms of the couple, as well as the silver copy of a wooden bucket, also with the Teleki coat of arms. The series is closed by the ginger-box of Judit Jósika. Bálint Frank, the famous high official of Nagyszeben (Sibiu), ordered the tankard (Fig. 63), decorated with Biblical