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A fine parcel-gilt and niello silver mounted velvet belt Central Asia, dated 1909 image 1
A fine parcel-gilt and niello silver mounted velvet belt Central Asia, dated 1909 image 2
Property from a private collection of Islamic and Indian Art
Lot 112

A fine parcel-gilt and niello silver mounted velvet belt
Central Asia, dated 1909

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A fine parcel-gilt and niello silver mounted velvet belt
Central Asia, dated 1909

comprising a leather band mounted in velvet, with thirty-two parcel-gilt and niello mounts variously in the form of rosettes, lobed cartouches and rosettes flanked by split palmettes, decorated in relief with split palmettes and foliate motifs, some with raised central bosses, the interlocking buckle elements with spiralling filigree work and raised bosses, one with foliate decoration to reverse, to the other an inscription in niello to reverse
185.5 cm. long

Footnotes

Provenance
Bonhams, Islamic Works of Art, 21 April 1999, lot 303.
Private UK collection.

Inscription: 'The work of Muhammad (?) ... Ilyas bin 'Abd al-Karim, 1909'

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