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A PAIR OF GEM-SET AND ENAMELLED BRACELETS (KADA), BENARES, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

October 23, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A PAIR OF GEM-SET AND ENAMELLED BRACELETS (KADA), BENARES, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY


each set with diamonds in the kundan technique on the exterior against a green enamel ground, the interiors and elephant heads with entwined trunks with delicate pink and white floral enamel details, fitted in old custom box

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each bracelet: 8 by 8cm. 

Please note that contrary to the printed catalogue, this lot comprises clear quartz and not diamonds.

Private Collection, UK, early 20th century, by descent

The pink and white enamel is typical of jewellery produced in Benares (Varanasi) in north India. For a discussion of the technique and its influences, see Krishnadasa 1971, pp.327-334, which also illustrates a comparable example, pl.27. Further related examples of this form are illustrated in Markevitch 1987, p.53, fig.19.