Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Boteh

A pale, softly blurred pendant, its sprig rubbed down to a gentle ghost.

This plaque amulet depicting a boteh is Hindu, from Rajasthan, India. It is coin silver. Silver amulets from Rajasthan are often made from coin silver, which gave smiths a metal of fairly standard purity that works well for stamping and engraving. Rounded teardrop with a boss and thick loop. The leaf spray is broad and shallow, with a whitish surface smoothed by long handling and a slightly warmer tone at the edge of the curl. It is 0.5 inches long and 0.75 high.

Gently erased, like a very patient fingerprint.