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

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

13. Characteristic edge decoration of the Augsburg group, on the case of the Passion of the Christ goblet, Collections of the Lutheran Church, Sopron Photo by Edit Darabos

ing cases, each serving a number of different gold- and silversmiths or agents. This workshop made numerous distinctive, easily recognisable, similarly decorated cases over a lengthy period. In addition to the

place where they were made, the cases are also linked via the person acting as intermediary agent with responsibility for commissioning, supervising and delivering them - this is demonstrably true for a few of the cases, and the connection would appear to be even stronger than the evidence alone suggests.69 There is no other explanation as to why the case for an item of fine metalwork ordered by a citizen of Vienna would be made in the same workshop as those produced for the treasuries of the richest princes and noblemen in Europe.

In summary, the Esterházy tendril-patterned cases from Augsburg that feature the basic set of tool patterns (with the exception, as mentioned previously, of the Swanshaped centrepiece) were made at some

14. Case for two salt cellars, Esterházy Privatstiftung, Eisenstadt Photo by Andreas Hafenscher

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