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buckle

Object NameBuckle

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1949

TechniqueCast, carved

SizeOverall H: 4 cm, W: 10.3 cm

Accession Number51.6.414

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary
Modern
Early Modern

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

玻璃龙纹带扣

Place Made

possibly China

Physical DescriptionBuckle. Transparent light green glass; cast, carved. Two square, lobed bases with extensions for a dragon-head hook in the round and for an open loop to receive the dragon head; high relief, undercut design on each of a dragon with complex tendril- like body and tail; a very low circular knob on the reverse of each.
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