Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper concerns a group of eight lost ancient objects, most likely photographed at Wilanów Palace in the 1940s. These artefacts almost certainly belonged to an old collection of antiquities, part of which has survived in the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów. The lost objects include figurines made of stone, bronze and probably faience. Photographs of these lost antiquities, preserved in the archives of the National Museum in Warsaw, have never been published before. The artefacts they document are discussed here in detail for the first time, which constitutes an important contribution to research on the Wilanów collection. The author analyses their identification and dating, linking some of them to items listed in the 1867 inventory of the Natolin Palace.
Author: Kacper Laube
Institution: National Museum in Warsaw
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410519153