Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 30. (Budapest, 2016)

Edit DARABOS: Altera Theca continens.A Research Into Historical Leather Cases made for Esterhazy Treasury Items

8. Roll with hunting scene (Jagdrolle) on the case for a covered ivory tankard

escope, perhaps at an even earlier date. The patterns on the case follow the kind of arrangement typical of Baroque book covers. The oval medallion in the centre is surrounded by superimposed tendrils that wind to the left and right, which is a typical Baroque motif, but there are also earlier types of tool (decorative bands made of inverted S-shapes, stylised flower stems (fleuron) intermingled on the surface of the case.41* In a still-life (present whereabouts unknown) painted in the mid-nineteenth century by József Borsos, the ivory tankard was depicted without the standing figure on the top of the cover.50 The shape of the figure, however, is preserved in its imprint inside the case.

The cases in the Esterházy treasury can be classified into two groups that bear very distinctive sets of gold tooling. (Fig. 9) The group of robust-bodied cases decorated with a row of leaves includes one for a covered ivory beaker bearing the date 1645,

9. Temporary assembly of the fragments of a case for a covered ivory beaker, put together for the purpose of identification, inv. no: Et 43.

Photo by Róza Brenner

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