A FINE SILVER "SIVLONOT" MARRIAGE BELT, consisting of 79 parcel-gilt links, each of shaped rectangular form, decorated with four small quatrefoils, modelled in relief with twelve tiny pearl-shaped knobs and pierced with six circular openings, each link alternating with three parallel oval rings, one end of the belt terminating in a parcel-gilt cartouche-form clasp, mounted with openwork scrolls and a floral motif, the reverse fitted with a hook, the other end terminating in a ring for closing, applied with a matching detachable buckle used to connect this belt to that of the partner by means of a third belt, apparently unmarked except for a restamped mark for small items from the former Austro-Hungarian empire 1806-1809, the K indicating Laibach (Ljubljana), Austria-Hungary, second half 16th Century 98 cm long(267gr) The period from the close of an engagement ceremony until the final week before the wedding was marked by preparations for the festivities. In addition, in some communities, the future bride and bride-groom exchanged gifts, known as Sivlonot . This custom goes back to Talmudic times. A pair of marriage belts, known as the Sivlonot Gertel (Gürtel) , very popular in especially Germany during the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries, was exchanged by the couple. They were usually of silver for the groom and gilt or gold for the bride and were worn during the wedding ceremony, while a third belt was used to connect the belts of bride and groom on their backs. For the use of these belts, see the painting "The wedding" by Moritz Oppenheim (1861) in: The catalogue of the Israel Museum, Moritz Oppenheim, The first Jewish painter, p.3, plate III. 10 and Moritz Oppenheim, Bilder aus dem alt-Jüdischen Familienleben (this catalogue, lot no....). For the custom of Sivlonot , see: Alfred Rubens, A history of Jewish costume, pp. 100 and 102. Enc. Judaica, vol. 4, cols. 756-757. Marriage, Jerusalem, pp. 14-15. J.J. Schudt, Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten IV, 3, Frankfurt am Main, 1717, p. 86. For other examples of Sivlonot marriage belts, see: Jewish life in art and tradition, p. 17. Alfred Rubens, A history of Jewish costume, p. 101, plate 133. Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London, 1974, p. 84 no. 453 and plate CXXIX. Monumenta Judaica, Köln, cat. no. E 175, fig. 55. Victor Klagsbald, Musée de Cluny, Paris 1981, p. 49, no. 54. Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, catalogue p. 58. Jewish tradition in art, Feuchtwanger, p. 42, no. 78-80; p. 44, no. 81-82; p. 45. For a similar marriage belt, but of 100 years later, see: Judaica Catalogue of Christie's Amsterdam 19 December 1990, lot no. 139. See illustration
A FINE SILVER "SIVLONOT" MARRIAGE BELT, consisting of 79 parcel-gilt links, each of shaped rectangular form, decorated with four small quatrefoils, modelled in relief with twelve tiny pearl-shaped knobs and pierced with six circular openings, each link alternating with three parallel oval rings, one end of the belt terminating in a parcel-gilt cartouche-form clasp, mounted with openwork scrolls and a floral motif, the reverse fitted with a hook, the other end terminating in a ring for closing, applied with a matching detachable buckle used to connect this belt to that of the partner by means of a third belt, apparently unmarked except for a restamped mark for small items from the former Austro-Hungarian empire 1806-1809, the K indicating Laibach (Ljubljana), Austria-Hungary, second half 16th Century 98 cm long(267gr) The period from the close of an engagement ceremony until the final week before the wedding was marked by preparations for the festivities. In addition, in some communities, the future bride and bride-groom exchanged gifts, known as Sivlonot . This custom goes back to Talmudic times. A pair of marriage belts, known as the Sivlonot Gertel (Gürtel) , very popular in especially Germany during the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries, was exchanged by the couple. They were usually of silver for the groom and gilt or gold for the bride and were worn during the wedding ceremony, while a third belt was used to connect the belts of bride and groom on their backs. For the use of these belts, see the painting "The wedding" by Moritz Oppenheim (1861) in: The catalogue of the Israel Museum, Moritz Oppenheim, The first Jewish painter, p.3, plate III. 10 and Moritz Oppenheim, Bilder aus dem alt-Jüdischen Familienleben (this catalogue, lot no....). For the custom of Sivlonot , see: Alfred Rubens, A history of Jewish costume, pp. 100 and 102. Enc. Judaica, vol. 4, cols. 756-757. Marriage, Jerusalem, pp. 14-15. J.J. Schudt, Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten IV, 3, Frankfurt am Main, 1717, p. 86. For other examples of Sivlonot marriage belts, see: Jewish life in art and tradition, p. 17. Alfred Rubens, A history of Jewish costume, p. 101, plate 133. Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London, 1974, p. 84 no. 453 and plate CXXIX. Monumenta Judaica, Köln, cat. no. E 175, fig. 55. Victor Klagsbald, Musée de Cluny, Paris 1981, p. 49, no. 54. Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, catalogue p. 58. Jewish tradition in art, Feuchtwanger, p. 42, no. 78-80; p. 44, no. 81-82; p. 45. For a similar marriage belt, but of 100 years later, see: Judaica Catalogue of Christie's Amsterdam 19 December 1990, lot no. 139. See illustration
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