Hair Ornament
mid 19th century (made)
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This necklace was probably made in North India in the mid-19th century. It was acquired by the Indian Museum in London in 1855. The museum bought many objects from the great national and international exhibitions of the period, and it is likely that the necklace was acquired in this way, possibly from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855. A large part of the Indian Museum's collections were transferred to the South Kensington Museum, later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1879.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold set with diamonds, emeralds and pearls |
| Brief description | Gold necklace set with diamonds, emeralds, pearls; North India, mid 19th century. |
| Physical description | Necklace in the form of 2 crescent-shaped pendants set with diamonds, with pendants of seed pearls and emeralds, suspended from strings of seed pearls with ruby and emerald beads. |
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| Summary | This necklace was probably made in North India in the mid-19th century. It was acquired by the Indian Museum in London in 1855. The museum bought many objects from the great national and international exhibitions of the period, and it is likely that the necklace was acquired in this way, possibly from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855. A large part of the Indian Museum's collections were transferred to the South Kensington Museum, later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1879. |
| Bibliographic reference | Susan Stronge, Nima Smith, and J.C. Harle. A Golden Treasury : Jewellery from the Indian Subcontinent London : Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 1988. ISBN: 0944142168
p.75 |
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| Accession number | 03177(IS) |
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| Record created | November 14, 2002 |
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