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Source Description
The girdle is made of a flexible, interlace mesh and has eleven movable retainers with large rhombic attachments, each with two tear-shaped pendants, and twelveretainers with smaller rhombic attachments, each with one pendant. All attachments were cast. Small rings and rosettes frame the large rhombic elements, and three-ring motif with burling rosettes accompany the smaller ones at their top and bottom. The clasps are also decorated with a large rhombic elements. A wire shaped in a figure-eight with a rosette is used as a closing element.On the front of the clasps is an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler and a date: al-Mahdi 1170. The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al-"Abbas makes it likely that thependants were produced under his reign from AH 1161 to 1189 (AD 1748-1775).An engraved inscription on the back of the clasp names the silversmith: Musa "Iraqi. For another object by Musa "Iraqi, see Walters 57.2321.
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Document identity
localId
80929
label
Woman's Belt
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
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80929
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Woman's Belt
description
The girdle is made of a flexible, interlace mesh and has eleven movable retainers with large rhombic attachments, each with two tear-shaped pendants, and twelveretainers with smaller rhombic attachments, each with one pendant. All attachments were cast. Small rings and rosettes frame the large rhombic elements, and three-ring motif with burling rosettes accompany the smaller ones at their top and bottom. The clasps are also decorated with a large rhombic elements. A wire shaped in a figure-eight with a rosette is used as a closing element.On the front of the clasps is an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler and a date: al-Mahdi 1170. The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al-"Abbas makes it likely that thependants were produced under his reign from AH 1161 to 1189 (AD 1748-1775).An engraved inscription on the back of the clasp names the silversmith: Musa "Iraqi. For another object by Musa "Iraqi, see Walters 57.2321.
provenance
Mr. Derek Content and Mr. Benjamin Zucker [Zucker Family Trust] London and New York, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.
date
1170 AH/AD 1756-1757
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
girdles (belts)
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4
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4
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
86.3
height
2.6
dimensionsRaw
L: 34 x W: 1 in. (86.3 x 2.6 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Stamp] In Arabic: al-Mahdi 1170; [Engraved] In Hebrew: Musa Iraqi
reign
Al-Mahdi al-Abbas (1170 AH/AD 1756-1757)
med
silver with gilding
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18959
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JWL
SAY
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3181
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