Nose Ring
2nd half 20th century (made), 20th century (made)
Place of origin |
Nose ring made of a gold loop with attached decorative elements on the lower part where the ring has been hammered to accommodate the gold wire fixings of the leaf-shaped element made of tiny seed pearls with a tear-drop base-metal setting for green glass around which hang clusters of seed pearl and green glass beads with some even smaller blue beads fixed on gold wire. Above this to the right is a gold lozenge-shaped setting with inset gold loops of red glass at the corners threaded onto the nose ring through a soldered piece of rolled gold. On the other side next to the double-twisted loop closure are threaded two pearls, a flattened red stone bead and a ring of tiny seed pearls together with pendant red and green stone beads and an additional tiny green bead topped with a pearl.
Object details
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Object type | |
Materials and techniques | gold, seed pearls, stone beads and glass |
Brief description | Nose ring (moti walla) in gold, pearls and glass |
Physical description | Nose ring made of a gold loop with attached decorative elements on the lower part where the ring has been hammered to accommodate the gold wire fixings of the leaf-shaped element made of tiny seed pearls with a tear-drop base-metal setting for green glass around which hang clusters of seed pearl and green glass beads with some even smaller blue beads fixed on gold wire. Above this to the right is a gold lozenge-shaped setting with inset gold loops of red glass at the corners threaded onto the nose ring through a soldered piece of rolled gold. On the other side next to the double-twisted loop closure are threaded two pearls, a flattened red stone bead and a ring of tiny seed pearls together with pendant red and green stone beads and an additional tiny green bead topped with a pearl. |
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Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
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Accession number | IS.260-2019 |
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Record created | May 19, 2015 |
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