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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 43

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