Enquiry about object: 6378
Three Large Indian Anklets
Maharashtra, India early 20th century
width: 11.5cm, height: 6.5cm, weight: 401g; width: 10cm, height: 6.8cm, weight: 440g; width: 9.5cm, height: 5cm, weight: 328g
Provenance
UK art market
These three, different, large and sculptural anklets are of silvered cast bronze and silver alloy.
Each is beautifully cast with motifs to suggest interlocking chainwork, bells and so on.
The two smaller examples have small grains inside so that the anklet would rattle when the wearer moved.
Each has wear and obvious age.
See Hoek (2004, p. 143) and Ghose (2016, p. 201) for related examples.
References
Ghose, M. (ed.), Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
Hoek, C., et al, Ethnic Jewellery: From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, Pepin Press, 2004.
