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A FINE RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD BELT

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A FINE RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD BELT

The oval clasp chased with vari-coloured flowers, with coloured gemstone inner border and three-stone diamond, rose-cut diamond and turquoise cluster centre, the mesh band with eleven mounts chased en suite, each with vertical five-stone turquoise centre, circa 1840, 74cm. long

Provenance: Given by Tsar Nicholas I to his daughter Olga Nikolaevna (1822-1892) who married 13 July 1846, King Karl I of Württemberg.

For a similar belt cf. Russian Jewellery of the 18th-Early 20th Century, Kremlin Museum, Moscow, 1988 (illus), and Russian Gold of the Fourteenth to early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves, Moscow, 1987, no. 118. Cf. also The Historical Museum, Moscow, Jewellery, 1985, nos. 94, 126

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