Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Kali

Two tall bails, a border of fat beads and a goddess holding a sword in one hand and a cup in another.

This plaque amulet depicting Kali is Hindu, from Rajasthan, India, in coin silver. Kali is generally understood as the power of time and change, and she is invoked to cut away illness, fear and misfortune. Here she sits in a dynamic pose with four arms, a raised blade at left and a goblet at right. A beaded girdle wraps her hips. The leaf-shaped plaque is framed in a heavy border of rounded drops, and pierced diamond ornaments mark the two bails and the small pendant at the point. It is 3 inches high and 2 wide.

Solid work, with nothing left to chance.