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Jewellery

c.1853 (made)
Place of origin
Delhi (made)

Crescent-shaped brooch


Object details

Categories
Jewellery
Metalwork
India Museum
Object type
Jewellery
Materials and techniques
Gold, babul work
Brief description
Crescent-shaped brooch, gold, Delhi, c.1853.
Physical description
Crescent-shaped brooch
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.3cm
  • Width: 5.5cm
  • Depth: 0.6cm
Object history
Probably in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855; transferred from the India Museum to the South Kensington Museum (now V&A) in 1879.
Bibliographic references
  • Farmer, Vivienne, Jewellery Studies, Volume 7, 1996, "Work of Thorns". pp. 14-16 and 22, figs.2-5, and 11.
  • 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. 5.11
  • Barnard, Nick, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 Number: ISBN 9781851774838 p. 77, pl. 3.37
  • Traditional jewelry of India / Oppi Untracht. London: Thames and Hudson Limited London, 1997 Number: 0500017808 p. 204, ill. 699
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
03332(IS)

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Record createdMay 14, 2009
Record URL
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