An 8th century Caucasian/Bulgarian bronze belt...

An 8^th century Caucasian/Bulgarian bronze belt buckle, circular and probably centred with a toadstone mounted in raised gold collet on a decorated circular gold centre piece, within a gold border of triangular garnets, joined to the hinged buckle with a rectangular section decorated with coloured glass, 17.3cm wide (including buckle), 6.2cm high the gold tests as 22ct.

Provenance: from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, 1871-1949.

Published: Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956, p.137 (d)