Live Auction 13757Seward Kennedy's Cabinet of Curiosities and The Tony Robinson Collection of Treen Drinking Vessels
A PAIR OF 'PAMBADAM' EARRINGS
Lot 58

A PAIR OF 'PAMBADAM' EARRINGS

TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA, 20TH CENTURY

Closed22 November 2016

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GBP 1,187

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A PAIR OF 'PAMBADAM' EARRINGS
TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA, 20TH CENTURY
Of geometric form, the attachments of screw form; together with a pair of Burmese or Thai yellow-metal earrings

Specialist note

For similar examples see A. van Custem, A World of Earrings; Africa, Asia, America from the Ghysels Collection, Milan, 2001.;
W. Ganguly, Earrings: Ornamental Identity and Beauty in India, Delhi, 2007;
N. Barnard, Indian Jewellery, V, London, 2008; and
O. Untracht, Traditional Jewellery of India, London, 2008.