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Belt buckle

Silver, parcel-gilt

Origin: Perhaps England or South Netherlands

Date: Mid-late 16th century

4.2 cm width

Provenance: Webster, 1940s

Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947; WA1947.191.134

T. Schroder (2009), no. 450

The design of this belt buckle is typical of northern Renaissance ornament around the mid-sixteenth century

Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)