A DIAMOND AND SPINEL SET AND ENAMELLED BELT BUCKLE
A DIAMOND AND SPINEL SET AND ENAMELLED BELT BUCKLE
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A DIAMOND AND SPINEL SET AND ENAMELLED BELT BUCKLE

NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

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A DIAMOND AND SPINEL SET AND ENAMELLED BELT BUCKLE
NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of oval form, set with diamonds and spinels in openwork rosettes, the reverse with green enamelled floral sprays, the clasp with green and blue enamelled chevron design
3 1/2 x 2 3/8in. (8.9 x 6cm.)
來源
With Horowitz & Cie, Geneva, 1987, from whom purchased by the present owner
注意事項
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam
Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam Head of Sale

拍品專文


Buckles strikingly similar to the present lot have been sold by Bonhams, 19 April 2016, lot 295, and in these Rooms, 6 October 1999, lot 210. Though both of these were attributed to North India in the 19th century, the design seems to have found its origins further south. A similar example with a different reverse enamelling is in the National Museum in New Delhi, where it is described as Deccani and attributed to the 18th century (published Rita Devi Sharma and Muthusamy Varadarajan, Handcrafted Indian Enamel Jewellery, New Delhi, 2008, p. 74). Much like this design, the technique of enamelling itself is likely to have arrived in India from the south: Susan Stronge suggests that it was first introduced to the subcontinent by European merchants in Goa (Susan Stronge, 'Gold and Silver in the 16th and 17th Century in Mughal India', in Nuno Vasallo e Silva and Jorge Flores (eds.), Goa and the Great Mughal, New York, 1996, p.70).

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