Lot 150
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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT AND SILVER-MOUNTED MARRIAGE BELT

Details
A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT AND SILVER-MOUNTED MARRIAGE BELT
BUCKLE MAKER'S MARK OF JOHANNES HANS HARTMANN, NAGYSZEBEN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, THREE MOUNTS DATED 1592 AND 1593

The belt of woven silver thread applied with multi-colored glass and turquoise-set silver mounts, some with reverse-painting and gilding, three with dates, the oblong silver-gilt buckle with openwork arabesques joined by link-chain and serpent-form hook, marked on reverse of each buckle
34¼in. (87cm.) overall length

Lot Essay

A similar belt by Johannes Mautner of Brassó, 1670-90, in the collection of the Magyar Nemzeti Museum, Budapest, is illustrated in István Fodor et al., Baroque Splendor: The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith, 1994, fig. 136, p.169.