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Belt buckle (ceinture) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. B 271

Bone;iron

Height: 35 mm (maximum)
Width: 65 cm

Holy Face of Christ (Sancta Facies); foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2013: Flanders (?), c. 1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Cracked in places.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
A. B. Chadour and R. Joppien, Schmuck I. Hals-, Ohr-, Arm- und Gewandschmuck, Bestandkatalog des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln (Cologne, 1985), no. 352, pp. 93 and 422.

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