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LOT 1250
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.
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LOT 1250
Western Asiatic Gilt Bronze Belt Element
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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