Belt for a lady's dress

Unknown (Italian)

Item type:

jewellery

Date of creation:

ca. 1375-1400

Height:

236.5 cm  (93 1/8 in.)

Width:

2.9 cm  (1 1/8 in.)

Depth:

0.6 cm  ( 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

basse-taille enamel and gilding on silver, silver thread, gilt-silver buckle, cast and chased

Description

The buckle consists of a figure of a woman who plays a drum with her right hand. Beginning at the buckle, enamel plaques include the following depictions: a woman plays a pig's head psaltery; a man plays a lute; unclear (not musical), a dancer, unclear; a half-man, half-beast; a person plays a lute; a dancer; a dancer; not musical; not musical; unclear (a person evidently strikes [or bows] an object on its shoulder); a dancer; a seated figure; another man-beast (not musical); unclear; unclear; unclear; a person plays a long-necked lute; a person seated on an animal plays an animal horn or oliphant; and a person plays a trapezoidal psaltery.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Drum [2585] (played with the right hand)
Psaltery [3677] (pig's-head)
Lute [3394]
Lute [3394] (long-necked)
Horn [4118] (animal or oliphant)
Psaltery [3677] (trapezoidal)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2188