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Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol
c. 150 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
These exceptionally fine pieces of gold jewelry would have been strung on a necklace. The auspicious symbols on either side of the egg-shaped bead are in the form of full blown lotus flowers with the seed pods carefully detailed, and trident-shaped forms decorated with stylized palmette motifs emanate down from the lotuses.
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- Title: Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol
- Date Created: c. 150 BC
- Provenance: (William H. Wolff [1906-1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Jewelry
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.66
- Medium: gold
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: India, Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh, Shunga Period (c. 187-78 BC)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: Indian Art - Sunga
- Accession Number: 1973.66
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