id:			112320
accession number:	1930.742
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.742
updated:		2025-07-08 11:27:06.915000

Belt for a Lady's Dress, c. 1375–1400. Italy, Siena(?). Basse-taille enamel and gilding on silver, silver thread, gilt-silver buckle, cast and chased; overall: 236.5 x 2.9 x 0.6 cm (93 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1930.742

title:				Belt for a Lady's Dress
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creation date:			c. 1375–1400
creation date earliest:		1370
creation date latest:		1405
current location:		109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Italy, Siena(?)
technique:	basse-taille enamel and gilding on silver, silver thread, gilt-silver buckle, cast and chased
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Overall: 236.5 x 2.9 x 0.6 cm (93 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages
	opening date:   1975-03-28T04:00:00
	<i>The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 28-June 16, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	the belt belonged in the family of Prince Nicolas Mingrelsky
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		147761
	Virgin and Child, c. 1315–20. France, Lorraine, 14th century. Limestone with traces of polychromy and gilding; overall: 75.9 x 28 cm (29 7/8 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1974.14
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CITATIONS

	W. M. M. “Girdle of the Fourteenth Century.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 17, no. 3 (March 1930): 35–41.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 35-41
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137281

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 58
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n82

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 58
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n82

	Wixom, William D. “A Gothic Madonna from Lorraine.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 343–349.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 343-345, fig. 5
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152558

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 68
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n88

	Dillon, Emma. "Sensing Sound." In<em> A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe </em>edited by Martina Bagnoli, Baltimore: Walters Art Museum,  2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 108
	url:		

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IMAGES

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