A Straits Chinese gilded metal belt

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Property of Carolyn Oei (Lots 63 - 66) Carolyn Oei was born in 1916, the eldest daughter of Laura Ping-Nio, the founder of Nonya Meneer, Indonesia's most well known maker of herbal medecines and cures. From the age of 16, she worked in her mother's factory and together, they expanded their business throughout Indonesia, offering a range of more than 120 herbal products, efficacious for both curing and prevention of diseases. She married into the well-known Oei Tiong Ham family, but continued to run her business with the help of her brothers and sisters. Carolyn and her mother shared deep passion for art, antiquities and gemstones as the next four lots being reminders of their large and splendid collection.

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A Straits Chinese gilded metal belt
The central oval silver on gold belt buckle set to the front with cushion-shaped diamonds in a foliate design around a central flower head, attached to a chain of twenty-two rectangular plaques depicting fish, crab, deer, birds and pomegranate
86 cm long

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Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

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A Straits Chinese gold belt should read gilded metal

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