TWO INDIAN SILVER BELTS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Mumbai and Pune, Maharashtra, Central India, 19th century

Comprising a double braided-wire silver belt (kamarpatti or kandora) with a solid silver clasp with rosettes and geometric motifs, 30cm diam.; and a similar though simpler silver chain belt (pon) with half-round wire links, the parcel-gilt clasp with two rosette medallions on the sides, 26cm diam, total weight 375cm.

For two examples of this type of Indian silver belts from Maharashtra, please see Oppi Untracht, Traditional Jewellery of India, Thames & Hudson, 2008, p. 243, cat. 529; and p. 245, cat. 538.

Provenance: Purchased in India in the 1970s by the current owner's mother.