Octagonal dish, ca. 1650, with later ornamentation, Hungarian, Beszterce, Gilded silver, Overall: 10 1/16 x 10 1/16 in. (25.5 x 25.5 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Some of the earliest surviving polygonal gold and silver objects are Medieval ten- and six-sided beakers from Germany. Saxon immigrants may have brought the form to Hungary and Transylvania in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and hexagonal plates and presentation dishes became the pride of Hungarian and Transylvanian treasuries
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Octagonal dish, ca, 1650, later ornamentation, Hungarian, Beszterce, Gilded silver, Overall, 10 1/16 x 10 1/16, 25.5 25.5 cm, Metalwork-Silver, earliest surviving polygonal, gold, silver objects, Medieval ten, six-sided beakers, Germany, Saxon immigrants, form, Hungary, Transylvania, twelfth, thirteenth centuries, hexagonal plates, presentation dishes, pride, Transylvanian treasuries
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