Standard of the Military Border Hussar Troop of the Karlovac Regiment


Austrian (Hapsburg) lands 1746-1749 Yellow silk damask, braids, flat stitch embroidery with silk and silver metal thread, fluted wood, silvered finial 55 x 88 cm, staff length 299 cm Double-edged cavalry standard richly embroidered and edged with fringes. Obverse: in the centre of the field, richly decorated with floral motifs, is the embroidered Austrian dynastic coat of arms. Reverse: the field holds an embroidered medallion in the Baroque manner, depicting a set of Roman military trophies. The flagstaff, fluted like a tournament lance, ends in a finial, which has on one side the incised coat of arms of the Prince of Sachsen Hildburgshausen, and on the other the figure of St John Nepomucene. The standard was donated by the parish office of Slunj. J. Borosak-Marijanovic, Zastave kroz stoljeca, Zagreb, 1996, catalogue number 52, page 121.




HPM/PMH-000708