Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 243
decorating the person, as nothing is uglier than heavvjewellery, which can only be valuable in the light of reprc -senting the wealth of the owner. Some of the Indian jewellery is, however, fairly solid andheavy, as in the chopped gold form of cubical, octahedron,and oblong shapes of the metal… … Fig. 194.—Silver Neck Ornaiucat, from Sindh. (B ) are made of twisted gold wire, which are common through- METAL WORK. 225 out India, and in the western provinces are made in thetwisted form of the IMatheran knotted and woven grasscollars.
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