Hand mirror - with leather box
| Accession Nr.: | E 72.2 |
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| Date of production: |
17th century
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| Place of production: | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) |
The elegant round mirror has a silver-gilt frame adorned with semi-precious stones, the back flat chased and engraved. Two serpent-shaped projections from the slender handle provide additional support to the mirror itself. We should probably identify this with a Turkish mirror with turquoises that appeared in the 1642 inventory of Erzsébet Thurzó's property at Fraknó, made after her death, and was also mentioned in Pál Esterházy's will of 1685 - "a mirror with turquoises, which used to belong to the vizier of Buda".
Literature
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András: Műtárgyak a fraknói Esterházy-kincstárból az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményében. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2014. - Nr. I.20. (Pásztor Emese)
- Szerk.: Tanman Baha: Exhibition on Ottoman Art. 16-17th Century Ottoman Art and Architecture in Hungary and in the Centre of the Empire. Istanbul, 2010. - Nr. 32.
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András: Esterházy-kincsek. Öt évszázad műalkotásai a hercegi gyűjteményből. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2006. - Nr. 8. (Rákossy Anna)
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András: Hungary's heritage: princely treasures from the Esterházy Collection from the Museum of Applied Arts. Paul Holberton, London, 2004. - Nr. 11. és képek
