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North Indian Necklace

Posted by Lynn Ardent on March 3, 2016 at 3:07am

A necklace from North India, likely Rajasthan, in high grade silver. With many chains, each link of which has an applied stamped-granulation design. The chains meet in triangular shaped terminal elements, each one decorated with many bells. One of them opens with a screw.

Comments

Peter Hoesli March 4, 2016 at 9:48am

An exceptional beauty Lynn. Many congratulations! Peter
Thelma March 5, 2016 at 1:11pm

This looks very elegant Lynn. And the chainwork is exceptional. The amount of time and skill spent in making the chains must have been enormous. I wonder how much the original silversmith charged for his work.
Lynn Ardent March 5, 2016 at 9:56pm

Dear Peter and Thelma, thank you for your kind comments. Thelma I agree the amount of work that went into this is very impressive!