Nose Ring
20th century (made)
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A large, heavy nose ring, nath, made of gold. The top half is a hollow gold loop filled with lac. It is hinged at the right hand side and slots into a gold tube on the left and fastened by a gold screw decorated with a rosette on its head. From the fastening on the left to below the hinge on the right there is a ribbed gold plaque with granulated and meandering wirework borders fixed in position by two conical circular medallions made of concentrically wound wirework with a granulated edging and granulated finial at either end soldered onto the plaque and threaded onto the right side with a narrow loop of gold at the back with two little loops through which is twisted a length of silver wire which is fused to the reverse of the plaque. It is threaded through a central loop towards the top of the plaque and is twisted round another loop on the other side and finally wound round the lower arc of the ring. The fastening tube has a small loop on its inner side at the back through which there is a metal link which is connected to the right hand loop on the plaque. The lower portion of the ring is made of silver wire and is threaded with pairs of granulated single and double sided discs, a pair of hollow gold beads, two green glass beads and an oval red glass bead in the centre.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold and glass. Gold wirework and granulation. |
| Brief description | Gold nose ring with glass beads from Gujarat |
| Physical description | A large, heavy nose ring, nath, made of gold. The top half is a hollow gold loop filled with lac. It is hinged at the right hand side and slots into a gold tube on the left and fastened by a gold screw decorated with a rosette on its head. From the fastening on the left to below the hinge on the right there is a ribbed gold plaque with granulated and meandering wirework borders fixed in position by two conical circular medallions made of concentrically wound wirework with a granulated edging and granulated finial at either end soldered onto the plaque and threaded onto the right side with a narrow loop of gold at the back with two little loops through which is twisted a length of silver wire which is fused to the reverse of the plaque. It is threaded through a central loop towards the top of the plaque and is twisted round another loop on the other side and finally wound round the lower arc of the ring. The fastening tube has a small loop on its inner side at the back through which there is a metal link which is connected to the right hand loop on the plaque. The lower portion of the ring is made of silver wire and is threaded with pairs of granulated single and double sided discs, a pair of hollow gold beads, two green glass beads and an oval red glass bead in the centre. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | Dr Ganguly purchased this nose ring from a jeweller, Bhogilal Hansraj, who told her he made up new pieces or repaired old pieces of jewellery for sale. She bought the nose ring from his shop in Ganga Bazaar in Nakhatrana, in Kutch, Gujarat. 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. |
| Historical context | The donor was told that this nose ring, locally called a vinho, is of a type worn by Jadeja Rajput women. |
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| Accession number | IS.309-2019 |
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| Record created | June 4, 2015 |
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