PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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AN ENAMELLED GOLD NECKLACE AND HAIR ORNAMENT (CHOTI)
PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The necklace composed of four gold cords mounted with five gold panels with polychrome enameled floral decoration, the central panel with a hanging enamelled gold pendant depicting Hanuman before Rama and Sita, a further enamelled green pendant hanging below, the two end panels of the necklace joined by a double gold chain; the hair ornament comprising four enamelled gold pendants joined by cord, the lower bell-shaped pendant issuing three smaller bell-shaped pendants, decorated throughout with floral motifs in white, red and green enamels
Necklace 15in. (38cm.) long; choti 5 ½in. (13.4cm.)

Provenance

By repute Maastricht, 1990s

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Lot Essay

Enamelled plaques with short inscriptions, or depictions of deities, were predominantly produced in Japiur. There are a number of examples in the National Museum, New Delhi (Rita Devi Sharma and M. Varadarajan, Handcrafted Indian Enamel Jewellery, New Delhi, 2008, p.8).

An enamelled and gem-set choti is in the collection of the National Museum, New Delhi (acc.no.87.1157, published Usha R. Vala Krishnan and Meera Sushil Kumar, Dance of the Peacock: Jewellery Traditions of India, Mumbai, 1999, p.181, no.284).

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