Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Dog

Three little dots hover over a broad, smooth dog on a clean ground.

This plaque amulet depicting a dog 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. Flat round pendant with a simple loop and a trio of small raised dots just below it. A thick, flat-bodied dog stands in profile with a long tail curling upward. The border is a plain raised rim and the finish is bright. It is 0.5 inches long and 0.75 high.

Sleek, simple and quite sure of its outline.