Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Durga

The goddess rides a lion across a small silver house, with a woven chain to carry her.

This plaque amulet depicting Durga is Hindu, from Rajasthan, India, in coin silver, on a woven silver chain sometimes called a dowry chain. Durga is widely revered as the warrior goddess who rides a lion or tiger, and Rajasthani amulets often show her mounted and armed. Here she is seated on a striding lion, multiple arms raised with weapons, under a peaked roofline. The plaque has a soft, worn silver surface and a small loop at the top. The chain is a dense snake weave, light gray in tone.

She has a lion, and the lion clearly knows who is in charge.