A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT AND STONE-SET BUCKLE WITH FOUR BOSSES
MARK PROBABLY THAT OF GEORGIUS HOSSMANN, NAGYSZEBEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The buckle consists of two curved silver-gilt panels with openwork scrolls and set with baroque pearls and cabochon garnets, joined by a conical-shaped rosette formed of openwork silver-gilt scrolls set with baroque pearls, turquoises and garnets, issuing from one side of the buckle a section of velvet applied with three bosses similarly decorated with enamel flowerheads and set with turquoises, pearls and redstones, the velvet terminating with a hinged hook set with a pearl and garnet, possible alterations, marked on reverse of buckle, mark double-struck
21¼ in. (51.4 cm.) long
A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT AND STONE-SET BUCKLE WITH FOUR BOSSES
MARK PROBABLY THAT OF GEORGIUS HOSSMANN, NAGYSZEBEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The buckle consists of two curved silver-gilt panels with openwork scrolls and set with baroque pearls and cabochon garnets, joined by a conical-shaped rosette formed of openwork silver-gilt scrolls set with baroque pearls, turquoises and garnets, issuing from one side of the buckle a section of velvet applied with three bosses similarly decorated with enamel flowerheads and set with turquoises, pearls and redstones, the velvet terminating with a hinged hook set with a pearl and garnet, possible alterations, marked on reverse of buckle, mark double-struck
21¼ in. (51.4 cm.) long
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