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Amber bowl of Sigismund III Vasa.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Poland)Unknown author, Sigismund III Vasa?
Title
Amber bowl of Sigismund III Vasa.
label QS:Lfr,"Bol en ambre de Sigismond III Vasa."
label QS:Len,"Amber bowl of Sigismund III Vasa."
label QS:Lpl,"Czara bursztynowa Zygmunta III Wazy."
label QS:Lde,"Bernsteinschale von Sigismund III. Wasa."
Date 1590
date QS:P571,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium amber and ivory
Dimensions 25.3 × 14 × 20 cm (9.9 × 5.5 × 7.8 in)
institution QS:P195,Q686548
Current location
Schatzkammer
Accession number
522
Object history

1590: commissioned by Sigismund III Vasa, Kraków
1633: inherited by Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Warsaw
1642: transferred to Anna Catherine Constance of Poland, Neuburg an der Donau
1651: inherited by House of Wittelsbach

1783: transferred to Schatzkammer der Residenz, Munich
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1590
Notes The bowl was most probably made by King Sigismund III Vasa himself and adorned with the coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and date of production in the center. The original cover was probably lost during World War II.
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Description Photograph
Date before 1978
date QS:P,+1978-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1978-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Mieczysław Ge̜barowicz (1978). Dzieła złotnictwa polskiego pochodzenia w skarbcu zamku królewskiego w Monachium. Studia do Dziejów Wawelu. Vol. 4, pp. 310-311, pic. 10
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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  1. it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
  2. it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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