Copper belt buckle with painted enamel plates... Lot 120

Copper belt buckle with painted enamel plates depicting the Annunciation with the angel Gabriel in bust form and the Virgin holding a lily. Limoges, first half of the 16th century Heights: 3.5 and 3.7 cm - Widths: 4.9 and 6.3 cm Label Rochebrune collection (accidents) Provenance: Count Raoul de Rochebrune Collection Bibliography : - R. de Rochebrune, Collection du Comte Raoul de Rochebrune, Château de la Cour d'Aron Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais (Vendée), 1917, n°17, p.53. (found) - A. Brunet, "Notes sur quelques émaux limousins des anciennes collections des comtes de Rochebrune", Bull.de la Soc. archéol. et hist. du Limousin, t. CXXVIII, 2000, n°27, p.22 and p.21 ill.