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bracelet

Object NameBracelet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1901-1961

Place Madeperhaps India

Techniqueassembled

SizeOverall W: 1.1 cm, Diam: 7.4 cm

Accession Number62.1.18 A

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent green, gilded, and dark gray glasses, and pink cement; assembled, presumably around mandrel, from preformed glass bracelets and inlays, with cement. Bracelet, consisting of plain, solid or tubular bracelet, circular in cross-section, made of dark gray glass; this was coated with thick layer of opaque pink cement, into which were pressed two tubular (bracelets of colorless glass with gold on their inner surfaces, one on each side of gray bracelet, with band of cement between them; into this band were pressed three rows of small colorless glass prisms, imitating diamonds, arranged in quincunx, and between "diamonds" and "gold" bands, two rows of small spherical green glass beads imitating emeralds.
Provenance

Source T. R. Anand - 1962