Nose Ring
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
A gold nose ring, nath, with a gold wire loop of a roughly oval shape which is hooked into the eye made from the twisted wire at the opposite end. The decorative portion of the ring has two granulated motifs, one in a tear-drop shape and the other in the form of a circular disc, embellished with flat colourless glass insets. The motifs are soldered onto a flat beaten part of the ring which has been fashioned into a hook at the end to link up with a short length of gold wire which is threaded with a cluster of gold beads and a flat red glass bead with an additional couple of red and green drop glass beads suspended from it. Small sections of coiled gold wire have been wrapped round the ring at each end of the ornamentation with that on the right hand side being further decorated with a central section, some 2mm in length, of the thin gold wire wrapped round the core wire in a concertina loop.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Gold granulation and wirework which is beaten and soldered with glass beads and insets |
| Brief description | Nose ring in gold and glass. Ajmer, Rajasthan |
| Physical description | A gold nose ring, nath, with a gold wire loop of a roughly oval shape which is hooked into the eye made from the twisted wire at the opposite end. The decorative portion of the ring has two granulated motifs, one in a tear-drop shape and the other in the form of a circular disc, embellished with flat colourless glass insets. The motifs are soldered onto a flat beaten part of the ring which has been fashioned into a hook at the end to link up with a short length of gold wire which is threaded with a cluster of gold beads and a flat red glass bead with an additional couple of red and green drop glass beads suspended from it. Small sections of coiled gold wire have been wrapped round the ring at each end of the ornamentation with that on the right hand side being further decorated with a central section, some 2mm in length, of the thin gold wire wrapped round the core wire in a concertina loop. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | Dr Ganguly bought this nose ring from Th. Narbe in February 2005. She believed that the nose ring may have been adapted by being lengthened to be worn as a single ear ring. The construction however, is the same as that of Prov.756-2015, which she accepts as intended as a nose ring in this form. |
| Historical context | Dr Ganguly records that small naths of this type are worn in the area from Ajmer to Nagaur. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ganguly, W., Nose Rings of India, Delhi, 2015
p.93, illus |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.276-2019 |
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| Record created | May 19, 2015 |
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