The main narrative element in this room is the collection of tankards and other silver and gold vessels displayed on a period table, which unambiguously but creatively alludes to the row of treasury tables on which valuables were arrayed in the historic Crown Treasury. This, Poland’s most valuable collection of ceremonial sideboard silver, originating from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gdańsk, Toruń, Vilnius) and from major European goldsmithing centers (Augsburg, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Berlin), evokes the royal opulence of the Commonwealth’s heyday.