Indonesian Locket on Chain with Tibetan Love Knot Motif

A silver box with the knot that never ends, set into a window of warm brown.

This locket on chain with Tibetan love knot motif comes from Bali, Indonesia, and is contemporary, in sterling silver and fossil mammoth tusk. The endless knot, a looping design without beginning or end, is one of the eight auspicious symbols of Tibetan Buddhism and is often read as a sign of lasting connection. The locket is a tapered box with a mottled, hammered silver surface. A rectangular panel of tusk, honey brown, is carved with the interlaced knot and sunk into the front. Two hinged loops at the top hold a heavy oval-link chain.

Very old tusk, carved into a promise of no particular end.