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LOT 1785
Balkan Enamelled Belt Fastener
19TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (32 grams, 57 mm).
Tongue-shaped with three loops to reverse; displaying an enamelled rosette against a geometric field and within a border of pellets. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market, circa 2010.
Literature
See Kovacheva-Kostadinova, V., Sarafova M., Cherkezova M., Teneva, N., Traditional Bulgarian Costumes and Folk Arts. National Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1994; Radeva, A., Hristozova, L., Kableshkova, R., Semerdjieva, S., Yankov, A., Antonov, S., Manev, V., Ethnographic Museum Plovdiv, Plovdiv, 2004.
Footnotes
Pafti (belt buckles) were a typical Balkan adornment, usually round or oval, mainly with floral ornamentation, but sometimes with mother-of-pearl appliqués of Jerusalem, or plates engraved with iconographic scenes.
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