Bangle: yellow-lacquered glass covered with red & green floral designs in copper foil, gilding & fake niello on copper. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bangle: yellow-lacquered glass covered with red & green floral designs in copper foil, gilding & fake niello on copper. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/11/2005]
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 Sequin, Material Copper Metal, Material Metal Wire
Dimensions: Diameter: max 57 mm, Height: max 11 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1952.6.16.7
Research and responses: These 8 bangles [1952.6.16 .1 - .8] were found together on a cylindrical mount covered with red paper. A large pre-PRM paper label was found attached to this group which states that they were the "property of the H.E.I.C." - this H.E.I.C. is the Honorable East India Company. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/1/2006]

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