Ban Ignjat Gyulay's sceptre


Gilt copper, embossing, casting, engraving 1806 75 cm The head is round with a long extending neck. The top of the head has an application with a vine garland fixed with a button. A band decorated with stylised palmettes in relief runs around the middle of the head. The neck holds a decoration with narrow petals of unequal length. The grip is extended, fashioned like a tube, and it is decorated with five rings. Next to two of the rings are pearl-shaped beads. The entry for this sceptre in the inventory book of the Croatian History Museum states that it was the sceptre of ban Josip Sokcevic. M. Sercer has identified it as the sceptre belonging to Gyulay from a portrait of Ignjat Gyulai. (Gyulay was the Croatian ban from 1806 to 1831.) M. Sercer, Staro oruzje na motki, Zagreb, 1972, catalogue number 122; M. Sercer et al, Znamenja vlasti i casti u Hrvatskoj u 19. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1993, catalogue number 7. M. Sercer et al, Znamenja vlasti i casti u Hrvatskoj u 19. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1993, catalogue number 7. The catalogue description is partly taken from Marija Sercer, from the catalogue Znamenja vlasti i casti u Hrvatskoj u 19. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1993.




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