Bracelet, One of a Pair
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These strings of beads on rigid wire were once part of a larger ornament, now lost. Coral was a favored material in India, which from the sixteenth century was imported from the Mediterranean, and traded for Indian diamonds.
This ornament was formerly in the collection of American artist and designer Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932) who purchased many items while traveling in India between 1879–1881. He collected many different examples of jewelry from India, sometimes several of the same type. Today, his assemblage in the Met serves as an in-depth study collection of Indian jewelry from the late nineteenth century.
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