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English: Ebony altar of Sigismund III of Poland.

Polski: Hebanowy ołtarzyk Zygmunta III.

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Hans Jakob I Bacchmann
Title
English: Ebony altar of Sigismund III of Poland.
Polski: Hebanowy ołtarzyk Zygmunta III.
Date 1624
date QS:P571,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Silver, ebony
Dimensions 104 × 62.5 × 9 cm (40.9 × 24.6 × 3.5 in)
Jasna Góra Treasury
Current location
Częstochowa
Object history before 1624
date QS:P,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: commissioned by Sigismund III of Poland, Warsaw
1708: bequeathed to Jasna Góra Monastery by Konstanty Władysław Sobieski
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English: The silver plates depicts the scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary - the Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi and Circumcision. Inscription: IN ALTISSIMIS DEO AC IN TER[R]A[E] PAX HO[M]INIB[US] BONA[E] VOLUNTA[TI]S. Signed in the lower part: VMF 1624 or NMF 1624.
Source/Photographer Alexander Przezdziecki, Edward Rastawiecki (1858). Wzory sztuki średniowiecznej: i z epoki odrodzenia po koniec wieku XVII w dawnej Polsce. J. Unger Publishing house. Engraving - UnknownUnknown , before 1858
date QS:P,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

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