Peasants’ Revolt Museum

Franjo Tahi's Sepulchral Slab

Inv. no: 2
Type of item: Sepulchral Slab
Date or period: 1573/1574
Author / country of origin: unknown
Material and technique: marble, stone-carving
Size: height 236 cm, width 86 cm
Subject: man in war armour
Marks and inscriptions: text in Latin: SPES MEA XR TRIBUS CAESARIBUS CLARIS, REGNATIBUS, ORBI HUNGARIE VITAE PROEMIA DIGNA TULIT ARMIS CLARUS ERAT VITA PRAECLARUS HONESTA CONSILIO FOELIX PROSPERITATE POTENS OMNIBUS EX VOTO CONCLUSIS, TEMPORE VITAE REBUS CONCLUSIT MORS INIMICA DIEM AMBIGUA TECUM FORTASSIS MENTE REVOLVES QUEM PROCERUM HAEC MONUMENTA VIRUM FRANCISUM TAHIUM CARAE CUM CONIUGIS OSSIS HELENAE ZRINI MARMORE TUMBA TEGIT QUARTA DIE MENSIS AUGUSTI ANNO MDLXXIII
Description: This is a sepulchral slab from the parochial church in Donja Stubica, where Franjo Tahi was buried, with relief and text. The rectangular plate is divided into three parts, held together by metal holders. Text is both above and below. In the middle, there is a man in a soldier's armour with helmet and gloves. Two coats-of-arms are visible: that of the Zrinjski family on the right, and that of the Tahi family, half-hidden.

Pocket Sun-dial

Inv. no: 595
Type of item: Watch
Date or period: 1755
Author / country of origin: F. A. R.(?)
Marks and inscriptions: F.A.R. /1755. g. (year)/
Distinctive features: Almost identical watch samples, dated differently, can be seen in the Museum of Arts and Crafts and in the National Museum in Ljubljana.
Description: a pocket sun-dial of irregular shape, with E.P.G. 4B (latitude) engraved on it.

Inv. no: 646
Type of item: Painting, Portrait
Date or period: 1626 (?)
Author / country of origin: unknown
Material and technique: oil on canvas, wooden frame
Size (frame excluded): height 91 cm, width 73 cm
Subject: portrait of a man
Marks and inscriptions: text in Latin, oval, along the edge: Stephanus Batachich / Banus Officii Regim in Croatia Anno 1626.
Distinctive features: Otto Köröskeny from Zagreb offered a portrait of Stjepan Patačić to the Croatian Historical Museum in 1884. It seems to have been this very item.
Description: a bust, from the waist up; a large head with big eyebrow arches above a pair of brown eyes, a big nose, and tight lips, hanging moustaches, and grey beard; he is dressed in a dark brown dolman. A mantle (traditional ceremonial cloak of Hungarian noblemen) of the same colour lined with bright-coloured fur is hanging over his shoulder. The bust is placed in the inner oval space. The background is dark and neuter and the inscription runs along the oval frame, which belongs to the period.

Parts of a Knight's Armour

Inv. no: 661
Type of item: Parts of armour
Date or period: 16th century
Author / country of origin: unknown, Austria
Size: the front part (breastplate and neck): height 75 cm, width 50 cm, length 35 cm; gorget: diameter 12.5 cm, circumference 42.5 cm, sleeve length 70 cm
Description: parts of a horseman's armour: breastplate, backplate, tassets (all three parts en suite), originally made for an Austrian arsenal (probably in Graz); gorget from the same period, but not originally belonging to the rest; all around 1570-1590; mail sleeves of knitted wire, from a somewhat later period.

Vase

Inv. no: 633
Type of item: Vase
Date or period: 1744
Author / country of origin: northern Italy
Material and technique: majolica, painted
Size: height 50 cm, opening diameter 17 cm, bottom diameter 20 cm
Subject: a biblical motive - Lot's escape; Lot and his daughters are leaving the burning Sodom and Gomorrah.
Marks and inscriptions: 1744.
Description: a painted, tall, decorative vessel with two handles; a biblical motive is painted on the front side - Lot's escape; Lot and his daughters are leaving the burning Sodom and Gomorrah. The bottom, the handles, and the neck are decorated with blue and white vegetal motives. The scene is painted separately from the decorations and the year 1744 is inscribed at the back.

Inv. no: 657
Type of item: Doll
Title: Ban Josip Jelačić in Olomous
Date or period: 1850
Author / country of origin: unknown
Material and technique: wax and textile
Size: height 17 cm
Subject: Josip Jelačić
Description: a form of a man in a dark blue uniform adorned with golden braids; he is wearing red trousers, a short blue cloak with golden adornments, a feathered cap with a red adornment, and a sabre around the waist. The doll is placed on a pedestal coated in red velvet and adorned with four golden flowers. It is protected by a glass bell.

Inv. no: 668
Type of item: Weapon
Title: Cut-And-Thrust Sword
Date or period: the last quarter of the 16th century
Author / country of origin: Styria
Material and technique: forged iron
Size: total length 116 cm, blade length 99.5 cm
Distinctive features: In the Graz archives, this type of sword is called crobatische Stoecher, which does not imply that it was forged in Croatia, but more probably that it was the weapon of Croatian mercenary troops in the service of the Styrian Grand Duke.
Description: The sword has a steel pommel with a vegetative decoration, repeated on the widened edges of the parried flat handles, considerably bent towards the blade. The handle wrapped in wire widens at the bottom into an upper guard, with edges bent towards the handle. A triangular tang covers the 3 cm of the upper part of the blade. The thrusting blade is triangular and every angle turns into a shallow blade. The grips have traces of galvanizing.

Inv. no: 431
Type of item: Weapon
Title: Halberd
Date or period: the first half of the 16th century
Author / country of origin: a local craftsman
Material and technique: forged iron
Size: length 552 cm
Description: a big battle knife with a three-point pick beak; the pole has an iron added piece with a point for a missing protective bar; the blade is wide with two narrow grooves.

Inv. no: 416
Type of item: Weapon
Date or period: 16th century
Author / country of origin: a local craftsman (north-western Croatia)
Material and technique: forged iron
Size: length 455 cm
Description: a forged iron spear point with two edges; blade on one side only; a short cylinder with a three-point slide bar for the pole.

Inv. no: 417
Type of item: Weapon
Date or period: 15th century
Author / country of origin: a local blacksmith
Material and technique: forged iron
Size: width 155 mm, length 225 mm
Description: The blade is parallelogram-shaped and its face is decorated with indented crescents. There are three different sorts of decorations.

Inv. no: 270
Type of item: Weapon
Title: Hook Gun
Date or period: 16th century
Author / country of origin: Germany
Material and technique: iron
Size: length 121 cm
Description: The barrel is rounded at first, then octagonal. The butt and the wick mechanism are missing.

Inv. no: 652
Type of item: Painting
Date or period: Biedermeier (around 1830)
Author / country of origin: unknown
Material and technique: oil on canvas
Subject: portrait of a noblewoman
Marks and inscriptions: CLOTILDA BAR. KULMER CONSORS GEORG. COMES AB/DRASKOVICH 1836.
Description: a young woman portrayed from below the waist up, dressed in a white girt-up dress with large puffed sleeves; dark hear with large curls is put up, eyes are blue and expressive. The background is neuter green. The inscription in the upper part was panted later.