Gyulai Éva - Viga Gyula (szerk.): Történet - muzeológia : Tanulmányok a múzeumi tudományok köréből a 60 éves Veres László tiszteletére (Miskolc, 2010)
ÜVEGMŰVESSÉG - ÜVEGTÖRTÉNET - Ridovics Anna: Üvegbe metszett hitvallás Krompachi Holló Zsigmond pincetok-üvegpalackja (1666)
VERES László 2006 Üvegniűvességünk a XVI-XIX. században. Herman Ottó Múzeum. Miskolc WAGNER, Carolus 1774-1778 Analecta Scepusii Sacri Et Profani I-IV. Johann Thomas Trattner. Viennae The engraved flask of Sigismund Holló de Krompach One outstanding piece in the Glass Collection of the Hungarian National Museum is a 17th century engraved glass flask purchased in 1939 at an auction. The piece came from the estate of Lajos Ernst, a well-known art collector. According to the Latin inscription on the rectangular flask (made for storage in bottle crates), the bottle was commissioned by Sigismund Holló de Krompach, imperial and royal familiaris , the chief tax-collector of Upper Hungary and Chief Post Master of Eperjes in 1666. His coat-of-arms with the eagle and the double cross was also engraved on the obverse of the bottle. Probably made in County Sáros, the glass wine bottle also bears an expression of the Virgin, the Patron Saint of Hungary, as well as of St. Sigismund and the Archangel Michael, the owner's personal patron saints. Sigismund Holló was an illustrious representative of the proHabsburg noble and administrative elite of Upper Hungary who had converted to Catholicism, and who supported the Habsburg sovereigns in the conflicts with the Estates. Together with other members of his family, he was buried in the Szepeshely church of the Szepes chapter, the most renowned cathedral of Upper Hungary. The funeral flags bearing the family's coat-of-arms still hung in the cathedral during the 19th century. Sigismund Holló was an educated man with a large library. The speeches made at his funeral appeared in print. The inventory of his house in Kassa has survived; the document lists several glass articles, including various luxury items, meaning that the bottle in the National Museum was not the single expensive glass bottle once used in Sigismund Hollo's household. Anna Ridovics 45
