Chalice with the coat of arms of Mniszech

The glass chalice was made in the first half of the 18th c. in Saxony. Saxon products did not turn up in the Łańcut Castle's eighteenth-century glass collection accidentally. During the period of the personal union between Saxony and Poland, Saxony supplied Polish glassworks with specialists and treated Poland as an export destination for its products. Saxon glass was also purchased by the Polish magnates during their frequent trips to Dresden. It is a cup made of clear glass; it has a large foot with a curled edge and decorated with palm branches, a quadrangular stem, and a conical bowl decorated with arcade facets. On the front, there is a carved Baroque cartouche with the Miniszech coat of arms of Józef Miniszech (1670-1747), the Grand Marshal of the Crown since 1713, placed on the background of two marshal's batons, topped with a crown. Barbara Trojnar