Featured Chinese Export Silver Buckle?

Hi all,
I'm not sure if this would be export silver, only marked Wang Hing. It is 5"L x 1 1/4", some sort of buckle?
any information appreciated
thanks for looking

 

Pretty! I love the two very different shapes.
It does look like half a buckle.

 

Is this the maker?
https://www.acsilver.co.uk/shop/pc/Wang-Hing-Co-b565.htm

 

thanks KSW

yes, that is the company

I thought maybe half a buckle, at 5"L, would it be a belt buckle or for something else

 

It's certainly a buckle half, but it's HUGE.

 

thanks bear I think huge too. From the pattern design, I thought it would be used horizontally, but with the 'buckle' part it would have to used diagonally? Or maybe not a belt buckle but for something else?
I have been looking but not finding anything similar to this

 

5”! I’d missed that vital bit of info. That’s huge for a clothing buckle, you would do yourself a mischief on it!

 

In the nineteenteens and twenties soft long fabric scarves were used as belts and looped through buckles of this type. Other type belts also featured similar tread-through buckles.
First two images are of dresses from 1913, the last image shows two 1920's dresses.

 

Cool piece! I seem to remember that maker being highly collected! I guess I could have the name mixed up but it rings a bell.

 

Only Wang Hing??! One of the most famous names of Chinese Export Silver. You can never have too many Wang Hing pieces, and this one is very stylish.
Pity it is only half a buckle though, but someone out there will have the other one, and will want this one. Trouble is, how do you find the owner of the other half.
I have a Wang Hing buckle, but it still has both halves, so I can't help you.

 

You could attach it to the flap of a clutch handbag with a wide elastic with just enough pull to hook it over a slot on the lower part of the bag. something like this:

 

Fabulous idea, I love that.

 

Very classy! Great idea

 

thanks for all the replies folks

Yes, it it huge

thanks for the images lizjewel

lol, yes, I wasn't clear I guess. No numbers or Chinese characters with the Wang Hing mark

Wow, thank-you elarnia, that looks fabulous on a purse

I agree

 

Perfect, elarnia!