A PAIR OF LARGE GEM-SET EARRINGS WITH SEED PEARLS, INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY |

each of openwork design, with a flowerhead ear-piece with hanging drop and crescent-shape containing two facing birds, gemstones set with foil-backing, seed-pearl fringes, attachment string

Both in good condition, some wear associated with age and discoloration to reverse, some elements probably later replacements, some hairline scratches in stones and minor oxidisation to some of foiling, as viewed.
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Stylistically, these earrings share a similar design with a nose-ring (balu) in the National Museum, New Delhi (inv. no.87.1168), attributed to Himachal Pradesh, early twentieth century (Krishan and Kumar 2001, p.177, no.276).