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LOT 1271

Western Asiatic Gilt Bronze Belt Element

12TH-13TH 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.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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LOT 1271

Western Asiatic Gilt Bronze Belt Element

Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)

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