Northern Indian Silver Dangling Wedding Earrings

This pair of over-sized silver bali earrings comprises large silver wire hoops with a lower border with impressed design from which numerous pendant balls, bells and spangles are suspended.

Ganguly (2007, p. 110) reports that such earrings were not worn for long periods – usually only for a short time during the wedding ceremony. On the death of an owner, bali earrings often were broken up and the silver parts were distributed to the owner’s children.

The pair here are in fine condition.