AN INDIAN JEWELLERY SET WITH AN ENAMELLED GULUBAND NECKLACE AND PAIR OF ROSETTE AND CRESCENT EARRINGS
Jaipur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, early 20th century

Comprising a typical guluband necklace with kundan gold foil and champlevé Jaipuri meenakari (red, green and white enamels), set with table-cut untested rubies and diamonds in kundan floral setting, caparisoned with small seed pearls and rounded red glass beads, the enamelled reverse decorated with red floral bouquets with spraying green foliage, with interwoven cotton and metal thread fastener at the back, the links 18cm long, 31.5cm long including the fastener; and a pair of rosette and crescent earrings, encrusted with untested rubies and diamonds in floral and drop-shaped kundan settings, the medial pendant featuring a medallion with hexagonal star (sitara) and moon design (naya chand or hilal), caparisoned with a band of small seed pearls and several drop-shaped pendants with diamonds and small pearls, the reverse plain, the gold hooks a later replacement, possibly originally a much longer type of earring in the style of bale jhabbedar with an ornamental suspending chain (sankali), 8.2cm long.