Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Upside-Down Deity

Pink-tinted and edged in dots, this disc wears its decoration like a scalloped pie crust.

This coin silver plaque amulet depicting an upside-down deity is Hindu, from Rajasthan, India. Small metal plaques bearing the image of a deity are traditionally worn as amulets, in the belief that the divine presence they carry offers protection to the wearer. A thin round disc with a heavily beaded edge and a slim loop at the top. Fine engraved lines fan out around a central figure with two big wing shapes. Faint rosy staining tints the upper surface and the loop looks slightly folded. It is 0.6 inches long and 0.8 high.

Delicate work with a blush it did not ask for.