Bangle: glass band covered with red lacquer, golden-coloured leaf/paint & crinkled foil tied on with string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bangle: glass band covered with red lacquer, golden-coloured leaf/paint & crinkled foil tied on with string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/1/2006]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Telangana Kerala Karnataka
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Hope Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1871
Date collected: circa 1871
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1952
Materials and processes: Material Glass, Material Lac Insect Lacquer Varnish, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Foil Metal, Material Yarn, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Inlaid
Object numbers: Accession number: 1952.6.8.2 Other numbers: 582
Research and responses: These 25 bangles [1952.6.8 .1 - .24 and 2006.2.1] were found together on a cylindrical mount covered with red paper. They represent a collection of different styles of bangle - some ornamented with white beads, some with foil. It is assumed that the accession entry which reads "24 bangles, lacquered, and with small white beads inset" does not refer to the composition of each bangle in this group but rather to the range of materials used. Since the accession entry is quite specific about the number of bangles (24), it has been necessary to give the 25th bangle a new accession number. There were no accession numbers close to the original Hope department collection accession numbers so it has been necessary to use a 2006 number. This decision was reached after discussions between myself, Alison Petch and Gali Beiner. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/1/2006]

Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament

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