A diamond-set and enamelled bazuband, India, 19th century

The bazuband is a traditional form of Indian jewellery worn around the upper arm and can be found on ancient Indian sculpture as early as the Gandharan period. Either worn singly or in a group, bazubands of the three panel tripartite form such as the present example first appeared during the Mughal period. An illustration of jewellery found in an album compiled for Colonel Gentil in 1774 now in the Victoria & Albert Museum show gem-set bazubands of tripartite form (see Stronge, Smith & Harle 1988, p.29).

A late eighteenth to early nineteenth century gold bazuband of comparable design set with diamonds is illustrated in Jaffer 2013, p.194 no.73.