Portrait of a boy and his rocking horse - Stanislaw Seweryn Potocki

 Salvete Omnes,

New Year has started - lets pray it will be not worse than the 2022 - fingers crossed - :)

ad rem,
Polish National Museum in Warsaw has among his collections this painting -

 

and a closeup of this splendid equestrian figure

According to the Museum information it was painted circa 1788, our boy (most likely this boy, whose father was Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki ) in the most splendid daily costume of the Sarmatians (Polish patriotic nobility of those times and also of the conservatives- so to speak) - zupan, kontusz sash, sabre, a kolpak, red riding boots.
His rocking horse - looking very much like an  Oriental- Eastern- stallion or even the Old  Polish one - has a splendid bridle made in the fashion of old Polish with Ottoman styles of the previous 200 years, give it or take - eg Beliotto's Stanislaw Poniatowski Wola Election 1776 - two versions:  Warsaw NM & Poznan NM.

This was the swan song of the Old Polish horse tack as the army regulation soon forbade the ornate bridles and shabraques/czaprak for the officer's horse 1789 and 1791. And then in 1795 Poland was partitioned by Prussia, Austria and Russian empire, and thus ceased to exist until 1806, when our state resurfaced as Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw etc, in the wake of Napoleonic armies crushing victories over the  Prussians.
ps
A presentation of children fashion as evidenced  in the National Museum collection - a file for download (in Polish)
Last year my friend Radoslaw Sikora authored  three articles about children games and plays in Old Poland - 1, 2, and 3.

Valete

Glories of Old Poland by Sztolcman - eagles and Madonna

Salvete Omnes,
looking at the presented collection I have decided to add more  images
of eagles, the symbol of Polish Crown and people, and of Madonna
the Holiest of Holy or our Queen of Poland - the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora Monastery - on these gorgets

Madonna from Koden with a votive plate on the right  and  next to it a votive plate from 1611, note the lance shaft being used as a shaft for the cross and religious flag, also hussar swords shown as the noblemen's arms

a votive plate - Madonna with Child with an eagle on her bossom

a White Eagle from Wachock

 most likely XVIII c winged hussar armor and XVI century kapalin helmet (for a retainer perhaps)

a sword - karabela

a mace - bulawa -

a piernacz mace

a kufel (beer stein)

powder flask and spoon and its carrying case 

a cartridge box of the Saxon kings period-  most likely it was the Polish soldiers who invented those cartridge boxes in the XVI century - friend of mine from the National Museum in Warsaw is writing his dissertation on this very subejct

a lamp

 Kontusz sashes

enjoy

valete

Glories of Old Poland by pen & brush of Wladyslaw Sztolcman

Salvete Omnes,
 again I am searching FBC and this time I found this collection Dominika Jeżewskiego Skarbiec Zabytków Polskich znajdujących się w prywatnych zbiorach Warszawy, malował z natury Władysław Sztolcman od r. 1909 -
Warsaw-domiciled  draughtsman and painter Władysław  Roman  Sztolcman  (1873-1950) was hired by a well know Varsovian collector or art and antiques Dominik Witke-Jeżewski (1862-1944) to draw and paint the artifacts in private collections in Warsaw etc (then Russian Poland since 1815). You can see the surviving plates in the already mentioned Warsaw National Museum site.
these are some of the palates from the collection -  drawn with unrivaled attention to detail and splendid in their beauty

winged hussar's armor,

 
swords,

maces,

war-hammers,

gorgets,

standard / banner,

hussar kopia (lance) in a form of a hetman's lance,

an eagle allegedly from the Jan III Sobieski's pistol holster,

and finally

kontusz sashes

enjoy 
valete
ps
how to tie a kontusz sash  - Paul is tying the kontusz sash while a young historian, lawyer-in-training and reenactor Grzegorz Szymborski serves as a live model..
 - Paul Zambrzycki’s Sashes and Tapestry Workshop