Nose ring with lapsilaculi and carnelian. Indian,... Lot 398

Nose ring with lapsilaculi and carnelian. Indian, 20th century. 12.71g, l 6.5cm. Long shackle with pearls, two square plates of sheet gold joined with bars and stabilized on the inside with a core. The front with four drop-shaped lapis lazuli inlays around a round one. Pseudo-granulated at the edge and decorated with rosettes. On the underside 11 carnelian pendants. With description of the collector! Published! Gold! Published in: S.Winkelmann - K.Marquardt, Ancient art from Afghanistan (2013) cat. no. Ck.1.2.263.CT. Intact. Provenance: ex collection Dr. Klaus Marquardt, North Rhine-Westphalia, 1980s to 2009; ex collection Prof. Klaus Müller, acquired 1991 in Bonn.