Lot No. 161


Mixed lot (2 items): Mauritania: A pair of bangles made of silver alloy, richly decorated.


Mixed lot (2 items): Mauritania: A pair of bangles made of silver alloy, richly decorated. - Tribal Art

A pair of old bangles in typical Mauritanian form. With hemispherical ends and each with five ‘sectors’ (the five ‘Pillars of Islam’). Made of weak silver alloy executed in ‘waste mould’ casting, and each with four circle-dot symbols (as protection against the ‘evil eye’), engraved with rich lines and dotted decorations. DM: each 8 cm x 9 cm. (ME)

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at

05.11.2014 - 13:00

Estimate:
EUR 600.- to EUR 800.-

Mixed lot (2 items): Mauritania: A pair of bangles made of silver alloy, richly decorated.


A pair of old bangles in typical Mauritanian form. With hemispherical ends and each with five ‘sectors’ (the five ‘Pillars of Islam’). Made of weak silver alloy executed in ‘waste mould’ casting, and each with four circle-dot symbols (as protection against the ‘evil eye’), engraved with rich lines and dotted decorations. DM: each 8 cm x 9 cm. (ME)

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Tribal Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 05.11.2014 - 13:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 31.10. - 05.11.2014

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