Indian Belt Buckle - Seated Vishnu with Elephants

A seated god under an arch, with an elephant at each side and the moon and sun overhead.

This belt buckle with seated Vishnu with elephants comes from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, in sterling silver. Vishnu, the preserver in the Hindu trinity, is among the most widely worshipped Hindu deities, and Jaipur's silversmiths have long worked devotional imagery into everyday ornament. The deity sits cross-legged on a chevroned platform, wearing a tall stepped crown, under a scalloped arch. Two elephants stand on either side, their bodies cross-hatched and heads raised. A crescent moon and a rayed sun fill the upper corners. It is 2.13 inches long and 2.38 high.

Divinely assisted, the belt will stay put.