Indian Silver Bangle

A coiled bracelet with a hinge, a hatched cartouche, and little pointed studs.

This silver bangle from Rajasthan is from Rajasthan, India. Rajasthan has a long tradition of silver jewelry, and heavy bangles and anklets have often been worn by women in rural communities as both adornment and portable wealth. A slender hinged bangle with ribbed coils on both sides of a central oval plate. The plate is engraved with crossed lines and dots, and small pointed knobs mark each shoulder of the band. It is 3 inches in diameter.

Small bracelet, large ambitions about pattern.