- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Green glass bangle; circular with wavy profile. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/11/2005]
- Long description
- Green glass bangle; circular with wavy profile.
- Geographical reference
- 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
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.6.9.60
- Research and responses
Personal communication, Nicholas Barnard, curator of SE Asia, V&A Museum: This object is similar to bangles the V&A has, originating at the old India Museum (the museum of the East India Company, then from 1858 of the India Office) whose decorative arts collections were transferred to the V&A (then South Kensington Museum) in 1879. It is possible that the PRM and V&A bangles have common origins, perhaps via the international exhibitions in the 2nd half of the 19th century, since the East India Company usually organised all Indian contributions to the international exhibitions. The India Museum got some of the residues from these exhibitions. Although he does not know about the 1871 exhibition, the V&A definitely had purchased material from the 1872 exhibition [GB 9/11/2006]
These 35 green bangles [1952.6.9 .55 - .89] were found tied together with string, a round PRM metal-edged paper label also attached to the string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/1/2006]
Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament