TY - JOUR N2 - The Krónik Library preserves a seal stamp made of green jasper, with the curved coat of arms of Ogończyk under a count’s crown and a cross of the St. Stanislas Order. The golden handle was shaped as the bust of a black boy wearing a turban. This element was also encrusted with previous stones (turquoise, almandine and opal). Most likely this figural presentation of the seal was produced in Dresden. The goldsmith may have been inspired by a catalogue of jewellry designs, drawn according to the projects of Friedrich Jacob Morisson of Vienna, published in Augsburg in 1693. It is very likely that the bust was purchased in Dresden by Augustyn Działyński (1715-1759), governor of Kalisz, when the seal itself was ordered – most likely in 1786 by his son Ksawery Działyński (1756-1819). The latter was received in 1786 by the Order of Saint Stanisław and in 1786 by the rank of the count. The handle of the seal stamp can be considered as an example of European influence on Polish cultural peripheries, in particular the fashion of the esoteric, as well as on Polish nobility, which often claimed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that the gentry was directly linked with the ancient Sarmatians. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113881/PDF-MASTER/document%20-%202019-09-17T123034.545.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113881 PY - 2012 EP - 275 A1 - Dolczewski, Zygmunt VL - tom 29 DA - 2009 T1 - A seal with a Negro or sarmatian exotics SP - 267 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113881 T2 - Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej ER -