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One of the more interesting collections of plaster prototypes, as yet not thoroughly studied, is the Warsaw collection of plaster casts. In the to-date studies it has been analysed from the perspective of history and history of art as a homogenous whole, a carrier of artistic culture. However, what is still missing are analyses focusing on basic facts as perceived by a museum curator, enabling identification...
The importance of provenance research for placing objects of originally unknown origins within a wider historical context is discussed. The issue is tackled on the example of a less known group of historic objects at the Jagiellonian University Museum: several dozens fragments of textiles from Egypt dating from Late Antiquity.
The paper presents the results of provenance studies related to the donation of Władysław Jagniątkowski (1856–1930) and his wife to the National Museum in Warsaw. Presented to the Museum in 1930, the collection of heritage pieces contains objects from China and Vietnam where the donor was based as a soldier of France’s colonial troops fighting to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. Based on untypical sources:...
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