A DECORATIVE GEMSET JADE ARCHER'S RING

INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A DECORATIVE GEMSET JADE ARCHER'S RING
INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Of typical form, the exterior with a diamond and red gem flower issuing meandering vine in gold wire with red gem petals
1 7/8in. (4.7cm.) long

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A green serpentine box in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts shows a similar technique of inlay with twisted wire around the gem-insets. It is catalogued there as early 19th century on the basis of a box in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, which was offered to the Emperor Qianlong or his successor Jianqing (r. 1796-1820) (Joseph M. Dye III, The Arts of India, 2001, cat.192, p.416).

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