A NORTH INDIAN 'HANSLI' NECKLACE

This lot is offered without reserve.

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A NORTH INDIAN 'HANSLI' NECKLACE
The blue enamel torque necklace with table-cut white sapphires to the table-cut white sapphire cluster centre with pearl and red enamel border, the reverse with red, white, green and blue enamel floral motif, 50.0 cm long, in green fitted case

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This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品专文

Hansli neckpieces are of rigid torque-like form, usually made of solid ornamented silver. A variation, as seen here, is made of hollow gold decorated with gemstones and enamel. It is a common rural ornament for women of northern India and takes its name from hansli, 'collar bone' upon which rests the front of the torque.

For a similar piece see Oppi Untracht, Traditional Jewelry of India (New York 1997), p. 352