Nose Ring
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Nose ring in gold with red glass stones set in kundan in an abstract design of a snake-like peacock with a flower above. It is engraved on the reverse with an echoing peacock and floral design, and with a fringe of radiating pearls (two missing at lower edge) and white glass beads A section of silver wire is attached at the left hand side onto which is threaded three white glass beads with granulated gold spacers in between and a cluster of two small seed pearls and a small white glass bead. This pendant cluster is linked with fine gold wire onto the silver wire which is twisted into an eye at the end to receive the hook on the end of a short gold section of a loop attached to the right hand side of the ring above the tail of the symbolic design.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Kundan gold, wirework, pearls and glass (or possibly garnets). |
| Brief description | Nose ring in gold with red glass stones set in kundan gold design of a peacock and flower, engraved on the reverse with the peacock and floral design, and with a fringe of radiating pearls (two missing at lower edge). Tamil Nadu |
| Physical description | Nose ring in gold with red glass stones set in kundan in an abstract design of a snake-like peacock with a flower above. It is engraved on the reverse with an echoing peacock and floral design, and with a fringe of radiating pearls (two missing at lower edge) and white glass beads A section of silver wire is attached at the left hand side onto which is threaded three white glass beads with granulated gold spacers in between and a cluster of two small seed pearls and a small white glass bead. This pendant cluster is linked with fine gold wire onto the silver wire which is twisted into an eye at the end to receive the hook on the end of a short gold section of a loop attached to the right hand side of the ring above the tail of the symbolic design. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | Dr Ganguly purchased this nose ring from Amrapali in April 2009. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ganguly, W., Nose Rings of India, Delhi, 2015
p.107, illus, p.36 illus (reverse) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.100-2019 |
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| Record created | April 29, 2015 |
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