Panel with a scene of the arrival of envoys to King John III Sobieski

The panel, executed upon the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the battle of Vienna, shows the arrival of envoys - Count Wilczek from Emperor Leopold I of Austria and the papal nuncio Pallavicini - at the court of John III with a plea for assistance for Vienna besieged by Kara Mustafa. The scene takes place in a spacious audience hall, with the king sitting on a centrally placed throne surrounded by court dignitaries and with the envoys kneeling at his feet. The panel was executed in the workshop of Baruch Dornhelm, the most renowned representative of a family of goldsmiths from Lviv specialising in the production of copies or, in simpler terms, forgeries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European artefacts. The seventeenth-century town marks of Gdansk, visible along the edge of the bannel, are to suggest an earlier origin, but this is not a copy of a Baroque work of art since it was made during the nineteenth century. A rare example of a product, whose degree of technical complexity testifies to the craftsmanship of the makers.