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buckle

Object NameBuckle

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1949

Place Madepossibly China

TechniqueCast, carved

SizeOverall H: 3.8 cm, W: 10 cm

Accession Number51.6.411

Curatorial Area(s)

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 green glass; cast, carved. Two rounded-square forms with extensions, one for a dragon-head hook in the round, and the other for a perforated loop to receive the dragon-head hook; each square decorated, in high relief and partial openwork design of a strange dragon form; on bottom of each a circular knob.
Provenance

Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951