1952.6.9.79

Collection type

Object

Description

Circular bangle with circular section; translucent green glass. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/11/2005]

Long description

Green glass bangle; circular with wavy profile.

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

Dimensions

Diameter: max 58 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1952.6.9.79

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]

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