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Anklet

c.1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (made)
Place of origin
Himachal Pradesh (made)

Silver-gilt anklet (paizeb) enamelled in blue and green with upper band of floral motifs and lower band of tear-drop shaped links


Object details

Categories
Jewellery
Metalwork
Object type
Anklet
Materials and techniques
Silver-gilt
Enamel
Silver Gilt
Enamelling
Brief description
Anklet, silver-gilt, enamelled, Kangra, ca. 1850
Physical description
Silver-gilt anklet (paizeb) enamelled in blue and green with upper band of floral motifs and lower band of tear-drop shaped links
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 15.2cm
  • Thickness: 4.4cm
Object history
Purchased from the Great Exhibition of 1851, London, as 'modern'.
Production
Nurpur or Jagat Sukh, Kangra District
Bibliographic references
  • Barnard, Nick, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 Number: ISBN 9781851774838 p. 84, pl. 4.1
  • 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. 5.3.
  • Catalogue of the objects of Indian art exhibited in the South Kensington Museum / by H.H. Cole. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall, 1874 p. 172
  • Traditional jewelry of India / Oppi Untracht. London: Thames and Hudson Limited London, 1997 Number: 0500017808 p. 355, pl. 782
  • Bryant, Julius and Weber, Susan; John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London Newhaven: Yale University Press, 2017 p. 8, fig. 1.11, cat. 24, and p. 527
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
121-1852

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Record createdDecember 1, 2005
Record URL
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