Collection record · Small worlds
Locket
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated 1700s. Recorded culture or place: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Jaipur.
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- Museum title
- Locket
- Date
- 1700s
- Culture / origin
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Jaipur
- Materials and technique
- gold and enamel
- Dimensions
- Case: 3.1 x 3.5 cm (1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1960.198
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This locket may have once been an amulet containing prayers and talismans or a container for perfume or other cosmetic items. At the center, a young woman stands between two groupings of large red flowers. The connections between women and nature have ancient precedents in India, often communicating auspicious fertility. Luxury enamels like this were the hallmark of 18th-century Jaipur goldsmiths and jewelry makers.
This locket was given to the museum by the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s community group founded in the early 1900s with satellites across the United States.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Twentieth Century Club · CC0
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