Set of nine buckles - Lot 55

Set of nine buckles Including a flying angel holding a crown, one with a geometric motif decorated with numerous picots, and one with a curious pyramid of superimposed animals. Bronze and gilded bronze. Ordos, Merovingian and Byzantine period. Length: from 3.5 to 10.5 cm Provenance: According to a copy of the collectors' notes: buckle with griffin acquired in Adana in August 1970, the one with the round of animals acquired from C.T. Loo in Paris in May 1955, the angel-shaped buckle acquired in Adana in August 1956. Published by SALMONY, Alfred, Sino-Siberian art in the collection of C.T. Loo, 1933, pl. XVI, no. 12 (for the round of animals). Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.