Set of nineteen buckles or plates, including : - Lot 54

Set of nineteen buckles or plates, including : - disc-shaped belt plates, mainly decorated with griffin, lion's head and Christ. - Lance-shaped plates decorated with snake-tailed lion, fighting lion and passing lion. - Rectangular slotted plate decorated with charioteer, winged horse, peacock, lion rider, lion passant and lion attacker. Bronze and gilded bronze. Anatolia, 6th - 7th century. Provenance: From a copy of collectors' notes, some acquired in Istanbul, others at Hôtel Drouot, notably Mes Rheims et Laurin sale, Succession de M. Jean Pozzi, November 17, 1970, lots 351 and 352. Publication: LEPAGE, Claude, "Cinq plaques-boucles byzantines à décor figuré", Objets, Genéve, 1969, n°2 (for some). Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.