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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
South Asia Gallery, Room 41

Necklace

ca. 1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Madurai (made)

Marriage necklace, or thali, consisting of golden pendants on black thread.


Object details

Categories
Jewellery
SCRAN
Metalwork
Object type
Necklace
Materials and techniques
Cast gold, stamped and chased and filled lac.
Gold
Cast
Brief description
Gold marriage necklace, Tamil Nadu (Madura), 19th century
Physical description
Marriage necklace, or thali, consisting of golden pendants on black thread.
Dimensions
  • Thread, doubled length: 38cm
  • 1st pendant length: 6.9cm
  • 2nd pendant length: 7.2cm
Object history
Purchased in India by Caspar Purdon Clarke in 1880-82.
Bibliographic references
  • 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 pp. 78-79
  • Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 Number: ISBN 9781851774838 p. 25, pl. 1.17
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.1869-1883

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Record createdMarch 27, 2003
Record URL
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