Buckle and belt-end

The buckle is banded: essentially the design is a cord round which a ribbon is bound, forming alternate plain and corded bands. It contains a large pin and is hinged to a buckle plate which is plain on the reverse, and enclosed by a corded rim on the obverse. The obverse of the buckle plate is decorated with two engraved foliated stems, which meet to form an ogee over a round arch decorated with pierced Late Gothic tracery. The belt end has this same motif on obverse and reverse. On the obverse is engraved a figure of the Virgin of Humility seated on the ground in a grassy landscape, beneath a Gothic canopy of tracery, feeding the infant Christ. On the reverse is the same pattern of pierced Gothic tracery; below a Gothic canopy is engraved a figure of St Andrew, standing in a grassy landscape in profile to the left, against a Gothic framework. He holds his cross with both hands.