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Anklet

about 1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (made)
Place of origin
Kangra (made)

Oval-shaped silver-gilt anklet enamelled in blue and green, with plain gilt section depicting two seated birds


Object details

Categories
Jewellery
Metalwork
Object type
Anklet
Materials and techniques
Silver-gilt, enamelled
Silver-Gilt
Enamelling
Brief description
Anklet, silver-gilt, enamelled, Kangra, ca.1850
Physical description
Oval-shaped silver-gilt anklet enamelled in blue and green, with plain gilt section depicting two seated birds
Dimensions
  • Length: 12cm
  • Width: 4.25in
  • Width: 11cm
  • At thickest section thickness: 1.7cm
Object history
Bought from the Great Exhibition of 1851 as 'modern'. Bought for 4 pounds 12 shillings.
Bibliographic references
  • Re-use: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety [Elektronisk resurs]. Sage Publications, 2012 Chapter 5, Nick Barnard; Indian Jewellery and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Pl. 5.4
  • Bryant, Julius and Weber, Susan; John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London Newhaven: Yale University Press, 2017 p. 8, fig. 1.12, cat. 25, and p. 527
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
122-1852

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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