Interesting & rare Punjabi bracelet 04.04.1821
This flexible bracelet has a cotton base onto which have been attached silver balls with granulation work. Curved silver panels that are seemingly composed of dozens of tiny spheres. These panels probably are meant to imitate the silver spheres (gajre) that are rigidly attached by means of a silver wire to the body of the bracelet on similar bracelets that are themselves designed to imitate bracelets to which dozens of tint pearls are tightly attached. The clusters of seed pearls used in the more extravagant versions of this bracelet were said to emulate bunched jasmine buds. (See Bala Krishnan, 1999, p. 146, for an example.). The bracelet opens by means of a pin that is pulled out to release a hinge.
