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An Ottoman ruby-set and enamelled gold belt buckle Turkey, 17th Century image 1

An Ottoman ruby-set and enamelled gold belt buckle Turkey, 17th Century image 2

Lot 58^*

An Ottoman ruby-set and enamelled gold belt buckle
Turkey, 17th Century

Islamic and Indian Art

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £28,160 inc. premium

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An Ottoman ruby-set and enamelled gold belt buckle
Turkey, 17th Century

comprising a central rose surrounded by openwork tendrils flanked by two cusped-ended rectangular elements with tulips on a ground of openwork vegetal interlace, one with hinge, the other detaching with hook, decorated in polychrome enamel and set with rubies and other gemstones, the reverse of the central panel partially engraved with a lattice of vegetal interlace, tested as 13 karat gold
21.4 x 6 cm; 110 g.

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Provenance
Private Greek Collection, acquired in the early 20th Century.

This buckle is a rare example of early Ottoman enamel work. The gold work, and more particularly the tulips, can be compared with those on a yoke in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (see Alexey Konstantinovich Levykin, The Tsars and the East, Washington D.C., 2009, no.61, pp.119-121). The yoke was probably composed using precious items from the Tsar's treasury bought as diplomatic gifts from the Ottoman court and is dated to the 17th century. The engraved decoration to the reverse of our buckle can also be compared with that on the reverse of a 17th Century Ottoman gem-set plaque also in the Hermitage Museum (ibid, no. 64, pp. 126-127).

A very similar belt buckle was sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 25 October 2018, lot 190.

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