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Belt with mother-of-pearl buckles. Jeruzalem / Palestine . Benaki Museum.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on March 3, 2016 at 2:56am

Belt with leaf-shaped, mother-of-pearl buckles. Late-Ottoman era, 19th century. Mother-of-pearl buckles with religious iconographical themes were often produced in Jerusalem for (Christian) pilgrims; belts made in northern Greek workshops were mainly engraved with secular subjects. Length of the belt: 101 cm. (Benaki Museum, Athens).

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Jean-Marie Criel March 3, 2016 at 3:02am

The resolution of the picture is (too) low (alas...), but the info is interesting.

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