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PALACE ENTRANCE HALL
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Palace entrance hall is situated along the axis of the building, somewhat dim, with stone floor and a beautiful entrance door oak frame; it is furnished with 19-century oak furniture of the Gdańsk Baroque type (tables, armchairs and lockers) and neo-Renaissance benches called cassapanca. Two big replicas are hung here: on the right "Hunting a Boar" after a Flemish painter Frans Snyders, on the left a portrait of August III of Saxony on horseback after the original by Louis de Silvestre from 1718. The door on the left leads to the main staircase.
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STAIRCASE
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Staircase leads you to the first floor of the palace. It is richly ornamented with stueco work, faced with marble, with neo-rococo banister made in the Warsaw workshop of Władysław Gostyński. The walls are hung with pictures in gilt frames. They are mainly family portraits, eg. of Tomasz and Katarzyna, Jan "Sobiepan" and Maria Kazimiera Zamoyski and bishop Jan Zamoyski, painted in the 90s of the 19th century by Józef Buchbinder after the fashion of old pictures and engravings. There hang royal portraits, eg. of August II Strong after Louis de Silvestre, Maria Leszczyńska and her husband Louis XV and Henry III Valois establishing the order of Holy Spirit. Among replicas of sculpture you can see "Moses" after Michelangelo. |
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COUNT KONSTANTY ZAMOYSKI'S STUDY
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Count Konstanty Zamoyski's Study Also called the Bielińskis' room from the 18-century portraits of this family hanging here. The biggest painting showing Grand Marshal of Poland Franciszek Bieliński, is probably a work of Louis de Silvestre - Saxon kings' court painter. Opposite the entrance, above a nineteen-century French desk, there hangs the oldest picture in Kozłówka collections - a landscape with ancient ruins painted by Oswald Harms in 1672; slighty lower - a picture of a similar subject-matter by an Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini, from about 1750. On the same wall under the ceiling there are some portraits of kings from Vasa dynasty: Zygmund III, Władysław IV and Jan Kazimierz, and two pictures of Maria Ludwika Gonzaga.
Opposite them are the Czartoryskis' portraits. Below - a drawing by an excelent French painter François Gérard from 1804 showing Zofia Zamoyska with her sons Konstanty and Władysław, and at the wall a vertical piano called giraffe (Vienna, the beginning of the 19th century), maybe belonging to her.
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COUNT KONSTANTY ZAMOYSKI'S BEDROOM
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In this most personal Count's room there hang mainly portraits of his next of kin: parents' - Jan and Anna, née Mycielska (on both sides of the niche), grandmother's - Zofia Zamoyska née Czartoryska (the biggest one, from the original by Józef Grassi from 1799) and her brother's - Count Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (over the door, after W. Lesseur - Lesserowicz), Konstanty Zamoyski's cousin's - Pelagia, née Zamoyska, who first married Rembieliński, then Branicki (an excellent replica of the beautiful portrait by F.X. Winterhalter), and above all the portraits of Count himself and of his wife Aniela née Potocka, painted by Leopold Horowitz in 1877. Between the windows - an inlaid bureau (Germany, Würzburg, about half of the 18th century). On the left-hand side of the bed - a locker for cigars and a small desk - counter. In front of the bed an English triple table, a so-called dumb waiter with some silverware from English and Russian plants. In the right hand corner, behind the screen - a small toilet recess with a wash-stand and a toilet set of Czech porcelain (Fisher-Mieg workshop in Brezowa, 2nd half of the 19th century) painted after Japanese porcelain Imari.
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CORRIDOR AND BATHROOM
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From the Countess' bedroom through the corridor and across the landing of a side staircase we go to a bathroom. In the corridor on the right we pass a bust and portrait of Anna Zamoyska, née Mycielska, the treasury door and the Countess' bedroom.
The bedroom is one of the six set up during the reconstruction at the turn of the 19th century. Then the Warsaw firm of "Sikorski & Kurcewski" installed a water supply and a sewage system, and furnished the palace with baths, fittings and columns for heating water. Behind the store in a corner of the room, there is a toilet with an English lavatory pan ornamented with a chrysanthemum motif. On the washbasin there is a faience toilet set (from Sarreguemines, end of the 19th century) and a hold-all - its equipment marked with the Zamoyskis' coat of arms Entrails lies in the drawer of this piece of furniture.
The biggest and most valuable picture is "Garlanding a poet" painted by Wilhelm Katarbiński in Rome in 1881.
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SMALL DRAWING ROOM
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Small Drawing Room was a chapel at the time of the Bielińskis, then before the war - the oldest son's room. The present interior reverts to the state from the beginning of the 20th century.
The pictures on the walls are mostly replicas of masterpieces of European painting. Over the door to the bathroom you can see "Count Henry Lubomirski as Eros" after Angelika Kauffmann, and further on clockwise: "Susanna in the bath" after J. B. Santerre, "King Charles I Stuart and Queen Henrietta" after Van Dyck school, below "Maria Czartoryska née Dzierżanowska and Cecilia Beydale", "Eros and Psyche" after François Gérard, "Atrocities of war" after Rubens, below "Danae" after Titian, "A Girl with a letter" after Greuze, "Antiope's Nightdream" after Correggio and at the bottom the portraits of Konstanty, Andrzej, Jan and Władysław Zamoyskis.
By the window there is an Italian pianomelodicon from the end of the 19th century - an instrument for mechanical reproduction of music, in the glass case - silver from various European workshops and a crystal set from a French glassworks Baccarat (the 4th quarter of the 19th century) - one of the two left from the Zamoyskis (6 carafes and 55 wine glasses have survived).
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COUNTESS' BEDROOM
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A group partrait by Sebastian Norblin shows Stanisław and Zofia Zamoyski with their six elder children. In the niche above the bed there hangs "Great Holy Family" after Rafaello, on the side walls - the portraits of Konstanty Zamoyski's parents, Anna Sapieżyna and Franciszek Mycielski. By the stove - a portrait of Aniela Zamoyski's sister - Janina Potocka née Potocka (after Pantaleon Szyndler). The furniture is nineteen-century: in the middle a French table form the 70s faced with porcelain tiles, around it delicate neo-rococo chairs, a neo-rococo chaise longue (Jansen firm, Paris) and tables for needlework. On the right of the niche there is a Japanese chest (Sato firm, Shizuoka) and between the windows lockers-fridges (Józef Sawicki firm, Warsaw). The most beautiful fireplace in the palace is decorated with a French clock (J. Ardavani, Paris) with a miniature of Zofia Zamoyska. |
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RED DRAWING ROOM
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Red Drawing Room is the main, largest (114m2) and highest (9 m) chamber of the palace. Three French windows once led into the no longer existing terrace with stairs to the garden. The windows and doors are adorned with embroidered pelmets and curtains of red velvet, and in one corner there is a huge stove with blue and white tiles, one of the three made to order.
In the years of national bondage Konstanty Zamoyski collected pictures of Polish kings and military commanders "to raise Poles'spirits". He did not forget about the glory of his own family placing portraits of Zamoyski Lords and Ladies in the most magnificient interior.
There are two great paintings devoted to Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. "Chodkiewicz's leave-taking of his wife before Chocim campaign" was painted by Józef Oleszkiewicz in 1808, while the picture "Chodkiewicz's death in Chocim" is attributed to Franciszek Smuglewicz. Opposite the windows you can see a pair of portraits: Hetman and Chancellor Jan Zamoyski - the creator of the Zamość Estate and the power of the family, and his fourth wife Barbara née Tarnowska.
The central place in the chamber is taken by two semicircular sofas (L. Mergenthaler, Warsaw). On the inlaid lockers in Louis XV style there stand replicas of antique sculptures - "Wrestlers" and "A dying Gallic warrior", and on the corner lockers porcelain Chinese with their heads nodding.
At the grand piano there is the American pianola from the turn of the 19th century. It is a device that by means of the piano reproduces music encoded on a perforated paper tape.
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WHITE DRAWING ROOM
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Two biggest pictures are replicas of group portraits of the Zamoyskis - in one (after Angelica Kauffmann) you see Chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski with his children: Anna, Aleksander and Stanis³aw, in the other (after Francois Gérard you see Zofia Zamoyska with the sons Konstanty and Władysław. Both originals burnt in the Blue Palace in 1939. French furniture from the second half of the 19th century in Louis XV style is worth seeing: two glass cases adorned with bronze from E. Garnier's workshop, inlaid lockers adorned with bronze with the motif of lion's leather, an inlaid desk made by a French cabinet-maker Befort the Younger specialising in copying furniture of A.Ch. Baulle. The chairs (Jansen firm, Paris) used to stand in the chapel.
In the glass cases there is porcelain from various European workshops from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, objects given by Polish citizens to the National Defence Fund in 1939 (gold reliquary cross, a couple of rings, a cameo with Herman and Dorothea) and other precious ornaments (a Chinese with chrysanthemums made of ivory, an agat wild boar form Fabergé firm).
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COUNT ADAM ZAMOYSKI'S STUDY
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The boast of the room is a golden-white stove with Entrails coat of arms, made to order after the fashion of rococo stoves, while the fireplace is an exact replica of one from Versailles from 1781. Opposite the entrance there are two portraits of Zofia Zamoyska - the one on the right could have been painted in Franois Gérard's studio at the beginning of the 19th century. Next to the mirror - a portrait of Stanisław August's parents: Stanisław and Konstancja Poniatowski and over the door to White Drawing Room a portrait of the king himself (both after Bacciarelli).
Among the furniture some pieces stand out: a 19-century locker in Louis XV style, a Kolbuszów chest of drawers with an adjustment in the form of a bureau, a bureau with an inlaid date 1716. On the mantelpiece a clock from a Paris firm Martenot resembling Baulle's products, and a pair of French Empire candelabra; on the locker at the door the bust of a famous 19-century French actress - Rachel. On the table you see a porcelain breakfast set for one person (so-called solitaire) adorned with scenes from Shakesperian dramas. In a corner of the room - a cup given to Adam Zamoyski in rememberance of his stay in Chicago in 1928. |
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COUNT ADAM ZAMOYSKI'S BEDROOM
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In the alcove there are portraits of Adam Zamoyski's parents - Stanisław and Róża née Potocka, above - a replica of the picture "Jan Grusset Richardot with his son" by Van Dyck, and portraits of Konstanty and Aniela Zamoyski's painted by Leon Biedroński. Above the bed there hangs a portrait of Adam Zamoyski's elder son - Aleksander, painted by Marceli Krajewski in 1918. A set of furniture from 1930 comes from a Warsaw factory of Z. Szczerbiński. On the right of the alcove there are portraits of Cecylia Lubomirska née Zamoyska (after F. X. Winterhalter) and of Stanisław Zamoyski in the uniform of Knight of Malta. Under them - a replica of a clock made by Balthazar for Louis XVI. Over the sofa in Louis Philip style there is a picture of Izabela Czartoryska née Fleming (after K. Wojniakowski), whereas over the door into a corridor - a picture of Queen Maria Leszczyńska. On the chest of drawers with bronze a replica of "Venus crouching". |
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EXOTIC ROOM AND CORRIDOR
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Exotic room is a small place leading to one of the bathrooms and the former pantry. It is full of 19-century furniture from Far and Near East and European objects inspired by Oriental art, e.g. a Japanese vase of Imari type, Chinese porcelain candelabra and a tureen from the group called famille rose, German imitation of white and blue Chinese porcelain. Among the furniture a real rarity - an armchair from the turn of the 19th century, designed by Carlo Bugatti, encrusted with ivory and pearl, covered with sheet copper.
The corridor leads from Adam Zamoyski's bedroom into a side staircase and White Drawing Room. On the right there is an inlaid 18-century wardrobe with flower and bird motifs. Over it you can see the portrait of the last owner of Kozłówka - Jadwiga Zamoyska née Brzozowska with her children: Adam, Maria and Andrzej. It was painted by G. Orłowski in 1941.
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BATHROOM
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The floor and walls of this room are covered by tiles coming from a well-known firm Villeroy&Bosch active on market until today. The most imposing piece of furniture is a splendid mahogany washbasin with a crystal mirror and marble top, equipped with a sink with an adjustable bowl, pulled out bidet and pulled out bowl for washing legs. In a corner behind the curtains there is an English lavatory pan. |
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DINING ROOM
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According to the rules observed in the 19th century, the dining room is furnished in heavy and dark Baroque style. Opposite the windows there are two Gdańsk cupboards from the turn of the 17th century, filled with porcelain and silver table utensils. Wicker chairs (from the 18th c) and carved chairs at the table (from the 19th c) are also in Gdańsk style. The table, sideboard and the frame of the mirror above the mantelpiece are thought to be Venetian. On the sideboard there is a fragment of a heraldic glass dinner service originally numbering 154 pieces, 18-century plates and a soup tureen from Meissen. On the table there are four figurines representing Fortune and Peace, made of Berlin porcelain, a gilded set for drinking beer and toast cups. The mantelpiece is adorned with an 18-century clock of Boulle type, another clock - a case one (Maple firm, London, the beginning of the 29th c) is next to the sideboard. Over the cupboards there hang some portraits of the Sobieskis (after J. Tricius): of King Jan III with son Jakub and Marysieńka with daughter Teresa Kunegunda. Over the door you see scenes from Heraclean myth. |
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LIBRARY
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Is furnished in the English style, with oak cupboards marked with the Zamoyskis' coat of arms Entrails and the Potockis' Pilawa. The library numbers about 6700 volumes including 572 old prints, the oldest dating to the 16th century. It is greatly varied and comprises books on religion, philosophy, history, law, science and agriculture, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, handbooks, children's books, guidebooks, classical literature and light literature, cartographic collections and annual sets of magazines (among others almost a complete set of "Biblioteka Warszawska" from 1841 -1914, dozens of annual sets of a French magazine "Revue des Deux Mondes" and women's magazines like "La Mode Illustree" and "Bluszcz"). In the middle there is a billiards table (Trotschel firm, Warsaw), over it a triple paraffin lamp from the beginning of the 20th century. On the mantelpiece there is a bust of an eminent politician and economist - Andrzej Zamoyski, sculpted by Marceli Guyski in 1869. In the opposite corner - a bust of Hetman Jan Zamoyski. |
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