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Lot 651 Dα

A Renaissance parcel gilt silver chain belt

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.400 €
Result: 4.788 € (incl. premium)

A Renaissance parcel gilt silver chain belt

Designed as a strand of cast silver plaques with strapwork surrounding cherub's head motifs, nereids and men holding water jugs. The clasp with a ring bail on one side to hold a necessaire or pouch. L 90 cm, weight 248 g.
Unmarked. Scandinavian, possibly Danish, early 17th C.

Literature

Cf. a belt with almost identical decor illus. in Fritze Lindahl, Skattefund, Danish Seventeenth-Century Silver Hoards, Copenhagen 1988, pp. 58, 142.