Nose Stud
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
A gold dome-shaped nose stud, locally known as kailegi, with a long hollow cylindrical hook which tapers towards the end, the tip of which has broken off. The hook is soldered to the centre of the interior of the dome and fixed to its lower edge with a small granule knob. The upper part of the central dome is ornamented with concentric circles of die-stamped twisted gold wire applied in a herring-bone design. The apex of the dome is decorated with a granulated finial of two granules within a gold calyx cup surrounded by radiating gold daisy-like petals curving above individual granules. The hollow dome is set on an encircling rim of four rows of openwork granules. The overall design is similar to that of Prov.988-2015.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold wirework and granulation |
| Brief description | Gold nose stud from Odisha |
| Physical description | A gold dome-shaped nose stud, locally known as kailegi, with a long hollow cylindrical hook which tapers towards the end, the tip of which has broken off. The hook is soldered to the centre of the interior of the dome and fixed to its lower edge with a small granule knob. The upper part of the central dome is ornamented with concentric circles of die-stamped twisted gold wire applied in a herring-bone design. The apex of the dome is decorated with a granulated finial of two granules within a gold calyx cup surrounded by radiating gold daisy-like petals curving above individual granules. The hollow dome is set on an encircling rim of four rows of openwork granules. The overall design is similar to that of Prov.988-2015. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | This nose ring is part of the large donation of Indian folk jewellery from Dr Waltraud Ganguly which was collected over the last few decades before her death in 2015 from dealers in both India and Europe, in parallel with extensive fieldwork she carried out in the Indian Sub-Continent. It was bought together with Prov.987-2015 and Prov.988-2015 from the Delhi Jewellery dealer, Mahendra, in April 2009 for 60 Euros. |
| Historical context | Formerly worn by tribal women in Odisha as part of a pair in either nostril often in combination with a bulak ring through the septum as shown in a photogrph in Untracht (1997), fig. 358, p.188. |
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| Accession number | IS.113-2019 |
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| Record created | April 29, 2015 |
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