Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 27. (Budapest, 2009)

Emese PÁSZTOR - Márta TÓTH - Anikó PATAKI - Andrea VÁRFALVI: Turkish Cases from the Esterházy Treasury

28 Gdvorfrán Österland. Livrustkammaren, Stockholm, 2001 (exhibition catalogue), p. 61 and fig. 59. 29 Treasures of the Armoury. Ambassadorial Gifts. Moscow Kremlin State Museum - Preserve of History and Culture (red. N. N. Dubovickaja), Moskva, 1996, pp. 108-111, nos. 99-101 and fig. 30 In so-called dival embroidery, another version of Turkish metallic-thread stitching, the motif to be embroidered is cut out from leather, parchment or paper and, having been placed on the ground, is covered with metallic thread in such a way that the thread running along the wrong side is led through the ground only at the edges of the contours, in order to attach the metallic thread on the surface to the ground. 31 Bow-case, second half of the sixteenth century, Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi 1/1302. Tapan, Nazan (gagman, Filiz - Ayko^, Serap, The Anatolian Civilisations III. Seljuk/Ottoman. Istanbul, 1983, p. 243, cat. E.224; - Bow-case, sixteenth century, Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi 1/10989. Atil, Esin, The Age of Sultan Süleyman. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1987, p. 164, no. 103; see also Nagy Szulejmán és kora (catalogue of an exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest). Edited by Ibolya Gerelyes, who also wrote the introductory study. Budapest, 1994, cat. 84. 32 'Item, a red velvet gold and silver skófium-tmbroidered / Bow-case, with bow. / Item, another quiver, with gilded arrows, velvet, embroidered with gold and silver skófium. Inventarium Rerum ... condam Comitissae Elisabethae Thurzó, ... in Arce Lansér, die 14. Julii Anno 1642. Hungarian National Archives, Budapest. Archive of the princely branch of the Esterházy family. Sign: P 108. Rep. 12. Fase. Q. No. 635, p. 10. 33 Here we should note that Pál Esterházy, the only child of István Esterházy and Erzsébet Thurzó and at the same time the heir to their wealth, married Orsolya Esterházy (1641-1682) in 1652. Hence, additional Thurzó chattels - including booty taken from the Turks - passed into the Esterházy Treasury's collection. 34 'Enumeration of cases. 1. Item, a case embroidered with skófium

, with quiver. / 2. Item, a skófium-cmbroidered red-velvet case, with quiver, bow, fourteen arrows in it. / 3. Item, a skófium-o.mbroidered red-velvet case, with quiver, bow, fifteen arrows in it.' Inventory from 1654 of the first Prince Esterházy s movable property at Fraknó. Published by Lajos Merényi. In: Magyar Gazdaságtörténeti Szemle 10.1903, p. 171. 35 '10. Case fully embroidered with skófium with quiver and bow ... No. 2. / 11. Case embroidered differently, with quiver, arrows and bow ... No. 6.' The 1685 inventory of the Fraknó treasury. Published by Imre Katona. In: Sav aria - A Vas-megyei Múzeumok Értesítője (hereinafter: Inventárium 1685), pp. 17-18 (19831984), p. 489. 36 'l.Faretra ex rubro Holloserico cum sua bursa arcu deaurato ac sagittis. / 2. Faretra ex rubro Holloserico ac alys suis requisitis priori per omnia similes. / 3. Faretra itidem ex rubro Holloserico aureo et argenteo scofion ornata. ac alys requisitis priori per omnia similes. / 4. Faretra totaliter aureo Scofion obducta, cum bursa sua, simili modo coperta, cum arcu suo et sagittis. / 5. Faretra puro argento et floribus aureis obducta, cum omnibus requisitis suis, prioribus per omnia similis.' Inventarium Thesauri Cels[issimi] S[acri] Rjomani] Ijmperii] Princ[ipis] Pauli Esteras ...in Arce sua Frakno existentis, Anno 1696. Hungarian National Archives, Budapest, Archive of the princely branch of the Esterházy family. Sign: P. 108. Rep. 8. Fase. C. No. 38/NB/l 79, nos. 1-5. 37 See note 34. 38 See note 35. 39 See note 36. 40 See note 34. 41 Humor, Izabella: '17. századi török íj, íj-tegez és nyílvesszők restaurálása'. Múzeumi Műtárgyvédelem 10 (1982), pp. 39-62. 42 Restoration was performed as examination work at Budapest's Academy of Applied Arts. Consultants: Márta K. Bendefy and Judit B. Perjés. 43 Width of the case: 32 cm, height 65 cm. 44 Pásztor, Emese: 'Tafota, melyre az virágokat írták' [Taffeta on Which Flowers Were Drawn]. Ars Decorativa 16 (1998), pp. 35-47 [48-54]. 45 Ibid., p. 51. 46 Sympatex: a basic material for air-permeable clothing: a membrane placed on a layer of polyester, it lets water-vapour through but not water. 108