Seal of Maksimilijan Vrhovac, bishop of Zagreb

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    author: B. Dornig
    1787-1827, Zagreb
    Iron
    4.2 x 4.6 x 9.0 cm

    Oval; in the seal field a coat of arms: quartered, first and fourth rocks; second and third a tower with mural crown and open gate; decoration: crowned helmet with two horns between which rises a tower, to the right of it a bishop's mitre, to the left a bishop's staff; decorative mantles on each side, and topping the entire bishop's hat. Right on the edge of the seal field a beaded decorative line. Octagonal iron handle with engraved sign (six-pointed star) and maker's name (F./ecit/ B.DORNIG.IN.AGR/am/), grows out of the small metal plate ; it has three decorative rings at the base and a narrow four-sided addition without an ending at the top.

    Donated by Ivan Benkovic, Farkasic, 1854-1865.

    V. Brajkovic, Pecatnjaci, Zagreb, 1980, pages 51-52.


    HPM/PMH-002884


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