Belt or Harness fittings

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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These belt or harness fittings consist of a buckle connected to a pentagonal plaque, seven pentagonal plaques and four pierced elements, three hexagonal and one round. All bear decoration in high relief and are gilded. The plaque attached to the buckle has a figure of a lion passant with one forepaw raised. The pentagonal plaques have a pair of lions rampant, with their tails and tongues entwined along the centre, and a third crouching lion below them. The pierced roundel has two confronted animals of indeterminate species, and the hexagonal elements have floral or vegetal decoration. The back of each fitting has three rivets, some of which retain square or polygonal washers roughly cut from sheet. Despite the similarities in material and technique, the differences in decoration suggest that the fittings may have belonged to more than one belt, but of the same workshop.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Belt or Harness fittings

Date

12th C–early 13th C

Medium

gilded cast & sheet silver & wire

Accession number

901

Work type

Sculpture

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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