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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy double 'looped' buckle of 17th century date. The bucle has a trapezoidal frame with two open segments, known as 'loops'. The outer edges of the frame are decorated with elaborate rounded, scrolled knops, the ends of the integral strap and pin bar are also scrolled and the inner frame pin rest is triangular; the frame itself is recessed and still contains traces of blue and white enamelling, set around further decorative scrolling and tendrils.This buckle is an example of the so-called 'Stuart enamelling' of the mid to late 17th century. In another recorded example (SOM-BB0BB4) the database recordsnotes that according to the late Geoff Egan, the manufacturers of this sort of material also produced enamelled buckles, buttons, stirrups and ornate candlesticks. This material was being made at the time of the Commonwealth and later (if not slightly earlier as well). The range was formerly known as 'Surrey enamels' from a mistaken attribution to a foundry there, but it has recently come to light that known makers in London were responsible. See C. Blair, 'Surrey' enamels reattributed' in the Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, vol. 13, 2005, (part 1) pp. 2-9; vol. 14 (part 2 with A. Patterson), pp. 10-21.
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