Uno da un paio di ornamenti dell'orecchio (Prakaravapra Kundala) ca. 1st secolo a.C. India questo squisito paio di orecchini d'oro in rari ad essere sopravvissuti. Mentre splendidi gioielli adornano le figure regali e divine rappresentate sulle prime sculture in pietra e sulle placche di terracotta, pochi ornamenti reali esistono ancora. Si ritiene che i gioielli non siano stati conservati e riutilizzati, ma invece sono stati fusi possibilmente per evitare di trasmettere il karma dell'ex proprietario. Oltre a grappoli e file di perle, ogni orecchino è decorato con un leone alato, ed elefante e due vasi riempiti di vegetazione. Indossato da slippi

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• Dimensioni: 4000 x 2920 px | 33,9 x 24,7 cm | 13,3 x 9,7 inches | 300dpi
• Data acquisizione: 21 gennaio 2022

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One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala) ca. 1st century B.C. India This exquisite pair of gold earrings in rare in having survived. While splendid jewelry adorns the regal and divine figures represented on early stone sculptures and terracotta plaques, few actual ornaments still exist. It is thought that jewelry was not kept and reused but instead was melted down possibly to avoid transmitting the karma of the former owner. In addition to clusters and rows of beads, each earring is decorated with a winged lion, and elephant and two vases filled with vegetation. Put on by slipping through a distended earlobe from the back, they are worn with the lion facing the wearer's cheek and the elephant on the outside. The place of these earrings in the history of Indian art is assured, not only for their intrinsic beauty, but also because of the light they shed on the superb quality of early gold-smithing in this region. Early Indian statues of both male and female figures were usually portrayed with elaborate jewelry that sometimes seemed fanciful, since very little comparable jewelry from that period survived. The discovery of this pair of earrings provided the first tangible evidence that the jewelry depicted by the sculptors was in fact based on real exemplars, for a very similar pair is shown on a first century B.C. relief portrait of a Universal Ruler, the Chakravartin, from Jaggayapeta. These earrings, judging from their material worth, the excellence of craftsmanship, and the use of royal emblems (a winged lion and an elephant) as part of their design, were most probably made as royal commissions. Each earring is composed of two rectangular, budlike forms, growing outward from a central, double-stemmed tendril. The elephant and the lion of repoussé gold are consummately detailed, using granules, snipets of wire and sheet, and individually forged and hammered pieces of gold. The two pieces are not exactly identical: On the underside they are both decora