Buckle
A butterfly-shaped buckle of gilt metal with turquoise enamel wings. Cabochon pink tourmaline-like stones, green jade or hardstone, a blue stone and red garnets are set in gold collets edged with seed pearls, over openwork filigree.
Look closer: Tiny seed pearls border every stone setting, and the gold filigree is visible through the openwork in the wings.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1900s
- Medium
- Gilt-silver inlaid with semiprecious stones
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3400 × 2473 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1999).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Cornelia Blakemore Warner