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Tokens made of glass paste, unknown sites, Sadnikarjeva collection, 1.-4. century AD
Tokens were used in the Roman world for a variety of purposes, including to mark ownership, as tokens for games (e.g. for board games, games in casinos or other premises, for gambling), and for rituals and "recording" of information. One of the uses of tokens was also in a military context. ...
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Torilo, Velika planina, first half of the 20th century
»Torilo« is a wooden, usually round bowl, turned and hand-made from one piece of wood, which has holes at the bottom for draining the whey from the curd or salty cheese. Shepherds made them from different types of wood, from black hornbeam, elm, maple, and pear. The bottom of the bowl was ...
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Devotional painting of St. John the Evangelist, 18th century
The embroidery depicts St. John the Evangelist with a chalice with a snake and an eagle on a lawn with flowers. Legend has it that once a pagan priest offered him a goblet of poisoned drink and said to him: "If you drink this and don't die, I too will accept faith in your God." The apostle took ...
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Stone axes, various locations, 4.-3. millennium BC
Common finds from the Late Stone and Copper Ages are stone axes. Such axes were still in use in the Bronze Age. A considerable number of them have been found in Slovenia. The axes in our collection were found randomly. In the photo, most are from Sadnikar's collection and unknown locations (three ...
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Bones of a cave bear, Mokriška jama, 30.000 BC.
The Mokriška cave is located 1500 m above sea level, below Mokrica (1853 m). In addition to archaeological artifacts (stone and bone tools left behind by man), it is known for many bear bones. That is why it is also called Medvedova jama. They were already found in 1837 by Henrik Freyer, curator ...
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Branko Uršič, Bamboo Armchair, 1977
The Bamboo armchair, designed by the Slovenian designer Branko Uršič for the Stol Kamnik factory, is made of beech wood and bamboo mesh. The design and prototype of the armchair were made in 1977, and the Stol Kamnik factory started producing it regularly from 1980. The use of round bars made ...
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Reliquaries, 18th century
Reliquary (medieval Latin reliquarium from reliquiae = remains) in Christianity, a chest for storing and displaying (worshiping) the remains of St. cross, remains of martyrs, saints, their clothing, etc. The existence of reliquaries has been attested in Christianity since the 4th century. ...
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Figurines Lady and cavalier, porcelain, ca. 1770
A pair of porcelain figurines consisting of two: lady from the time of King Louis XVI of France (1770-1780) and a cavalier from the copf style period (ca. 1770-1780). They are both dressed in the typical dress of the upper class of the 1770s. Kamnik’s private collector Josip Nikolaj Sadnikar ...
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Oliver Pilić, Pearl Earring, hand-printed woodcut, 2017
The graphic work Pearl Earring, in the woodcut technique and printed by hand, is the work of a younger generation Kamnik artist, Oliver Pilić. The latter significantly enters the context of contemporary fine art in the context of both the local and Slovenian art scene and technically intervenes ...
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Lojze Perko, Factory Utok, 1954, o.pl.
In the 1950s, more precisely in 1954, the work of the academic painter Lojze Perko (1909-1980) was created, which depicts the Utok factory in Kamnik, when it was nationalized and expanded tremendously from the once small private leather factory of Tone Knaflič. Perko designed the picture from the ...
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