Nose Ring
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Gold bulak without its fastening loop. It has a U-shaped back plate with triple settings of bright green and red glass pointing upwards and downwards along the curve at the bottom. The elongated curve of the ring is decorated with a central die-stamped geometric pattern of lozenges bordered with twin rows of die-stamped twisted wire, set in a herring-bone manner. The piece retains remnants of a bright red pigment. Two small gold rings are soldered onto the back at the top of the ring to take the missing fastening loop.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Gold, glass: wirework |
| Brief description | Gold bulak without its fastening loop decorated with wirework and glass. |
| Physical description | Gold bulak without its fastening loop. It has a U-shaped back plate with triple settings of bright green and red glass pointing upwards and downwards along the curve at the bottom. The elongated curve of the ring is decorated with a central die-stamped geometric pattern of lozenges bordered with twin rows of die-stamped twisted wire, set in a herring-bone manner. The piece retains remnants of a bright red pigment. Two small gold rings are soldered onto the back at the top of the ring to take the missing fastening loop. |
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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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ganguly, W., Nose Rings of India, Delhi, 2015
p.64, illus. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.363-2019 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2015 |
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