buckle

Object NameBuckle

Made Fromglass, gilt bronze

Date1850-1949

Place MadeChina

TechniqueCast, carved

Size4.45 x 6.55 cm, Th (without slides): 1.15 cm

Accession Number51.6.373

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern
Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

玻璃龙纹带扣

Physical DescriptionBuckle. Transparent light green glass; cast, carved. Rectangular form with notched corners; vine-like design of dragons and fungi in high relief on plain platform base; ornate gilt-bronze frame with rounded openwork frieze on the edge of linked circlets and, on the bottom, an openwork panel of incised lattice and plum blossoms together with two open bar slides.
Provenance

Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951

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