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.

CONDITION

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LOT 1250