Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 31. (Budapest, 2017)

Ildikó PANDUR: Restoration of Metalwork from the Esterházy Treasury in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts: Past, Present and Future

Múzeumban [Goldsmith’s works, Jewellery and the Esterházy treasury. Exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts], Budapest, 1963.

39 Mother-of-pearl cup, inv. no. E. 88.4.

40 Known under the name ‘Veret’ [mount], inv. no.

E. 65.70, it actually belongs to the saddle of inventory number 52.2860.

41 The two-volume Pulszky - Radisics catalogue of 1885 (see footnote 23) contains a total of 153 plates, made with three techniques—heliogravure, copper engraving and polychromic lithography. Twenty-one of these show items of Esterházy metalwork or details of them.

42 Ej. 189.

43 E. 60.9.

44 See footnote 12, Museum of Applied Arts Archive, 1923/154. See Horváth 2014, p. 30.

45 This task, which requires special skills held by few people in Hungary, is being carried out by Mária Szabóné Szilágyi.

46 The restorers Edit Darabos and Róza Brenner started this work. See Darabos, Edit: ‘Altera Theca continens... A Research Into Historical Leather Cases made for the Esterházy Treasury’,

Ars Decorativa 30, 2016, pp. 29-54.

47 Mace, inv. no. E.60.5; sabre, inv. no. E.60.9. Metalwork: Veronika Szilágyi and Gábor Juhász,

2016; woodwork: Mária Szabóné Szilágyi, 2016; textiles: Márta Tóth, 2013.

48 The latest reconstruction is the work of Péter Varga, who made a copy of the Vezekény Basin for the Esterházy Privatstiftung in 2000 (inv. no. E.60.3).

49 Basin and Ewer with the coats-of-arms of Antal Losonczy and Klára Báthory, Ferenc Képíró, Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), 1548, inv. no.: E.60.14.1-2.

50 Joachim Szvetnik Memorial House, H-6449 Mélykút, Honvéd u. 1.

51 See Vass, László: ‘Az Esterházy-kincsek restauráló műhelyében’ [The Esterházy treasures in their restoration workshop], Magyar Nemzet, 1963, 31 October. Quoted in Rauzs 2008, p. 58.

52 Cup with cover, inv. no. E. 75.1. Restored by Joachim Szvetnik, 1972-1974/1975, renewed restoration by Gábor Juhász, 2006.

53 Ostrich egg cup, inv. no. E. 60.1. Restored by László Dömötör, 1953-1954, new replacement by Gábor Juhász, 2006.

54 Ostrich egg cup, inv. no. E. 68.1.

55 Triumph of Bacchus, inv. no. E. 60.13. Restored by Joachim Szvetnik, ivory figures renewed restoration by Mária Szabóné Szilágyi, 2013.

56 List of principal exhibitions: Horváth 2014, 82-85.

57 Szilágyi 2006.

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