IDENTIFIERS
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id:	119018
accession number:	M.1 & A-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buckle in silver-gilt and belt (A) of yellow-ochre coloured velvet. The belt is in two pieces joined, folded over and stitched over petersham ribbon. It has three hand-stitched eyelet holes. The buckle and belt end are of silver-gilt, decorated on the outside with openwork birds and beasts amid curling foliage. The back of the buckle mount is engraved with a man and woman in early 16th century dress, standing in front of a wall on which there is a ewer. Over their heads is a coiling scroll inscribed ACLĀVVΛ. The back of the belt end is engraved with a half sun; the two small holes for attachment to the belt have lines engraved around them to resemble stars.
object type: silver-gilt and yellow-ochre coloured velvet.
title:	girdle and buckle

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought privately in London


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119018

PEOPLE
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man
woman




CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1510
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1510
culture:	16th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Forty-second Annual Report, for the Year 1950
European sculpture and works of art 900-1900
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