- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1895.626.A-B
- People
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Attributed to Peter Orr
- Title
- Pair of Swami-style Earrings
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Work Type
- earring
- Date
- c. 1880
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232522
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gold?
- Dimensions
- 4.5 × 1.6 cm (1 3/4 × 5/8 in.)
- Provenance
- Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, New York, NY, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
- Accession Year
- 1895
- Object Number
- 1895.626.A-B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Two linked gold plated metal squares with bead fringe. Relief decoration of two four-handed icon figures seated in yogic posture.
- Exhibition History
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Silver and Shawls: India, Europe, and the Colonial Art Market, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/27/2005 - 01/29/2006
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