Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures, ca. 1350–1400

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Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures, ca. 1350–1400, Italian, Basse taille enamel, silver-gilt, mounted on textile belt, 69 x 1 x 11/16 in. ( x x cm), Enamels-Basse taille, Extravagant girdles used to cinch the fall of clothing at the waist were often part of betrothal gifts, dowries, and counter-dowries (given by the groom). One of the stories of Boccaccio's Decameron (1349–52) included girdles, along with rings, as gifts for a new bride

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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