NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GEM-SET SILVER AND SILVER-GILT CROWN
NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Of curved form with alternating rosette and boteh finials set on top of diamond-set openwork panels each centred on rosettes with ruby or emerald-set centres, the openwork panels on a white metal frame with attachment loops at either end
10½in. (27cm.) across

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This crown was probably made to serve as a crown for a Jain sculpture of lokapurusha or the ‘cosmic man’. Crowns which normally adorn this figural representation of the Jain view of the universe have cusped edges and are decorated with scrolling flowering vines. For a related image of a painted representation of lokapurusha see Pratapaditya Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, exhibition catalogue, 1995, cat.103, pp. 230-31. That painting of lokapurusha which was formerly in the Paul F. Walter Collection later sold at Christie’s, New York, 20 March 2009, lot 1344.

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