Golden Horde Gilt Bronze Fastening Element

13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/4 in. (18.25 grams, 43 mm).

Pentagonal in plan with scooped ogival upper edge, shallow sides and slider-bar to reverse; high-relief decorative motifs of rosette and radiating stems and leaves.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Literature

Cf. a plaque with a similar pattern for the fastening of the boots in Yefimov, K. Yu., 'Golden Horde Burials from the cemetery of 'Olen-Kolodez' in Russian Archaeology, no.1, 2000 (in Russian), pp.167-182, fig.8, no.3.

CONDITION

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