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

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

2. Arrow-case and bow case formerly in the Batthydny-Strattmann collection at Körmend, which featured as exhibit 2875 and 3285 at the Millennial Exhibition, from left to right). Both Ottoman Turkish, seventeenth century (Museum oj Applied Arts, Budapest, Archive, Inv. photonegative. 2182) skóftumft or were supplied with thin leather appliqué embroidered with sköfium (such leather appliqué was then highly fashionable),

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4 and/or with metal mountings.

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5 Of the more decorated cases acquired as spoils of war and kept in the collections formerly maintained by Hungarian aristocrats, some featured at the Historical Exhibition of 1886 and the Millennial Exhibition of 1896 (both events were staged in Budapest). These pieces came primarily from the Esterházy Treasury at Fraknó

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6 and from the BatthyányStrattmann collection at Körmend.

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7 Apart from the five cases surviving in the Esterházy Treasury, these have either perished or else have disappeared from view. Archive photographs of a few of these lost pieces have survived in the Archive of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Thus, we are able to identify from among the more decorated 'everyday' cases once kept at Prince Ödön Batthyány-Strattmann's castle at Körmend and displayed at the Millennial Exhibition in Budapest a bow-case embroidered with sköfium on a velvet ground (fig. 1, right-hand side), a bow-case decorated with silver-gilt sheet appliqué (fig. 1, middle), a bow-case with skófium-embroidered leather appliqué 73