Published: 2024-06-19

From the history of amber collections in pre-Partition Poland Part I: Amber specimens from Nathanael Sendel’s collection in the Dresden collections of Augustus II the Strong — the Elbląg/Elbing bid inventory of 1724

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Sources
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM72.2024.1.004

Abstract

The paper presents the circumstance of the sale of the amber collection of the Elbing (present-day Elbląg) city physician Nathanael Sendel to Dresden for the royal collection in 1725, and as an appendix, the 1724 offering/bid inventory itself. N. Sendel was one of the most important collectors of succinite in Royal Prussia and the author of numerous works on amber. The value of the source stems from the fact that it reveals the scope and character of N. Sendel’s original collection, and complements later inventories of the royal collections produced by Johann Heinrich von Heucher and their subsequent custodians.

Keywords:

amber, collections, sources, Nathanael Sendel, Johann Philipp Breyne, Dresden, early modern age

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Pękacka-Falkowska, K. (2024). From the history of amber collections in pre-Partition Poland Part I: Amber specimens from Nathanael Sendel’s collection in the Dresden collections of Augustus II the Strong — the Elbląg/Elbing bid inventory of 1724. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 72(1), 75–100. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM72.2024.1.004

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