This part of the exhibition presents luxury weapons associated with the European courts, especially the Habsburgs, and the craftsmen who worked for them. It is also an opportunity to discover the rich and varied decoration and symbolism that transformed old weapons into works of art, but also into an important element of men’s civilian fashion.
Germany, ca. 1480
Iron, brass, leather, forging, cutting, openwork
It comes from the Simon family’s private collection in Lviv
Czech, second half of the 15th c.
Iron, forging, engraving, openwork
Transferred from the Adrian Baraniecki Technical and Industrial Museum in Krakow, after 1951
Europe, ca. 1620
Iron, copper, forging, engraving, soldering
Gift of Stanisław Zenowicz, 1917
Italy (?), 17th c.
Iron, wood, iron, leather, repoussé, etching, forging
Spain, Toledo, workshop of Heinrich Coel, 1590-1620 (blade) and 1630-1660 (fittings)
Iron, brass, openwork, punching, engraving, chiselling
Deposit of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. Gift of Princes Czartoryski
Germany, ca. 1600-1630
Iron, steel, leather, wood, forging
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Germany, Augsburg, between 1535-1540
Iron, forging, openwork, gilding
According to Ortwin Gamber, director of the Waffensammlung at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the visor is a set with armor in the Vienna museum
Germany, Munich, workshop of Ambrosius Gemlich, 1528
Iron, wood, etching, gilding
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Germany, Augsburg, ca. 1570
Iron, forging, etching
Gift of Janina Kornecka, 1948. From the collection of Zygmunt Ignacy Kowalski (1847-1918)
Germany, ca. 1560
Iron, wood, etching, gilding, engraving, forging
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Europe, first half of the 17th c.
Iron, steel, gold, forging, openwork, inlay, etching
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Italy or Netherlands, first quater of the 17th c.
Iron, wood, brass, forging, openwork, engraving, niello
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
England, ca. 1600
Iron, silver, gold, forging, inlay, punching, gilding, browning
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Germany, Nuremberg or Saxony (?), 1570-1589
Iron, cord, leather, gold, forging, etching, gilding
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Poland, Wrocław (Breslau), 1730
Iron, wood, gold, bronze, forging, punching, inlay, gilding, engraving, chiselling
Gift of Jerzy Budweil, 1950. According to the donor, the crossbow comes from the ‘Luborzyca Castle’
Germany (?), 18th c.
Iron, brass, iron, wood, forging, engraving, carving, cutting, punching
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Silesia, Teschen, 17th c. (stock), second quater of the 19th c. (lock)
Iron, brass, wood, bone, mother of pearl, forging, inlay, engraving
Gift of Władysław Józef Fedorowicz, 1922
Silesia, Teschen, second half of the 17th c.
Iron, wood, bone, mother of pearl, forging, engraving, carving, inlay
Deposit of the Academy of Learning, 1896
Silesia, Teschen, ca. 1640
Iron, wood, bone, mother of pearl, wood, reed, copper, gold, forging, inlay, engraving, gilding
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Saxony, first half of the 17th c.
Wood, bone, iron, forging, inlay, engraving
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow