Nose Ring
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
A gold nose ring with a hook and eye fastening. It is decorated with silver and glass beads separated by silver granulated rings, a purple stone, possibly an amethyst, in a tear-drop silver setting, and a row of radiating gold balls all slotted onto the lower portion of the ring. There is a network of tiny red and green glass beads strung on a silver alloy wire as an outer rim. The area within the ring is densely decorated with an infill of rows of tiny seed pearls with an overlay of either red or green glass beads mounted in lac in tear-drop shaped settings made of die-stamped silver. The back reveals a web of silver wires twisted and threaded and plaited to keep the ornamentation in place.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Gold, silver alloy, glass and pearls |
| Brief description | Nose ring from Bhopal |
| Physical description | A gold nose ring with a hook and eye fastening. It is decorated with silver and glass beads separated by silver granulated rings, a purple stone, possibly an amethyst, in a tear-drop silver setting, and a row of radiating gold balls all slotted onto the lower portion of the ring. There is a network of tiny red and green glass beads strung on a silver alloy wire as an outer rim. The area within the ring is densely decorated with an infill of rows of tiny seed pearls with an overlay of either red or green glass beads mounted in lac in tear-drop shaped settings made of die-stamped silver. The back reveals a web of silver wires twisted and threaded and plaited to keep the ornamentation in place. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | This nose ring is part of the large donation of Indian folk jewellery from Dr Waltraud Ganguly which was collected over the last few decades before her death in 2015 from dealers in both India and Europe, in parallel with extensive fieldwork she carried out in the Indian Sub-Continent. She bought this nose ring from Michael Beste in 2007 for 700 Euros. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ganguly, W., Nose Rings of India, Delhi, 2015
p.121, illus. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.411-2019 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2015 |
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