Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski saddle

After the first partition of Poland in 1772, some of the Czartoryski estate was in the terytory of Habsburg monarchy. It was then that Prince Adam Kazimierz accepted the rank of commander of the Galician Noble Guard.
This military formation, in Polish uniforms, was supposed to represent the best families, prepare candidates for military or clerical service, and perform representative functions at the imperial court.
The preserved work is a great example of the Polish saddle from the time. Thanks to the preserved documents, it is known that it was made between November 1782
and September 1783 by Warsaw Jewish craftsmen: the embroidery machine Morycz, the "Jew stonemason" - a jeweler polishing yarrow and incrusting it with gold, the goldsmith Sender. The saddle as a souvenir of Prince Adam Kazimierz was placed in the Temple of Sibyl
in Puławy, after the November Uprising, it was stored in Paris and presented there at the exhibition in 1865.