AN INDIAN SILVER BELT WITH ENAMELLED PEACOCKS
Madhya Pradesh, Northern India, 20th century

Made of interlinked individual silver elements with vertical rows of four stylised rosettes flanked by flattened striped columns, the linking hoops of each element reminiscent of armourial chainmails, with seven unusual polychrome enamelled peacocks interspersed amidst the rosettes, the buckle a plain rectangular section at the front with screwed-in silver nail with arrow-shaped terminal.

82cm long

344gr.

For a similar but plainer belt without enamelled figural decorations: Anne Leurquin, Ceintures ethniques d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie, ed d'Amérique de la collection Ghysels, 2004, p. 137. The presence of enamelled plaques in this lot makes it rarer and more unusual, suggesting perhaps a special private commission.