| Stone Type | None |
| Weight (g) | 60.00 |
| Colour | Silver |
| Occasion | Festival |
A pendant of pierced oxidised silver: Lakshmi seated at the centre in high relief, framed by two peacocks with raised tails and a surround of curling scrollwork, with a granulated border following the outer edge. It hangs from a chain of fluted silver balls, and the matching studs are smaller versions of the same pendant. There are no stones anywhere in the set.
Available in Silver — oxidised silver with no stone setting.
Everything here is carried by the modelling of the metal. The figure has real depth — folded legs, raised arms, a defined face — and the scrollwork behind it is cut right through, so the whole pendant works in three dimensions rather than as a decorated disc.
Without stones, nothing dates and nothing has to be matched. This is a piece that can be worn with any colour and kept for years, which is not true of most decorative jewellery.
Lakshmi seated in the traditional pose, flanked by peacocks. The composition is borrowed from temple sculpture, where the deity is framed by paired attendants, and it is what gives a small pendant a sense of architecture.
Fluted rather than smooth silver balls, so the chain has texture along its whole length and belongs with the pendant instead of merely carrying it.
The pendant sits below the collarbone. Light, comfortable for a full day, and the ball chain lies flat without twisting.
Cotton, khadi, handloom and plain silk. It suits everyday wear as easily as a festival, and pairs naturally with plain silver bangles.
A figural pendant is cast rather than cut, and the quality shows in the depth of the relief and the sharpness of the smallest details — the fingers, the face, the individual feathers of a peacock's tail. A well made mould, used early in its life, produces crisp edges and clearly separated planes; a worn mould gives soft, rounded forms where the metal has not filled properly, and the face is usually where this shows first. It is worth looking closely at the face of any figural piece before buying, because it is the hardest part to cast well and the fastest to degrade, and it tells you more about how the piece was made than the overall design does.
Never use a silver dip, which strips the oxidised finish and flattens the relief. Wipe with a dry soft cloth and store flat in a pouch.
Pendant proportion is mostly about the bail, the loop the chain passes through. A bail that is too small forces a thin chain; one that is too large lets the pendant swing and twist. When a pendant hangs crooked it is almost always the bail rather than the chain that is wrong.
Costume jewellery earns its place by letting you wear a shape you would never commission in precious metal. The designs here come out of a tradition centuries old; the materials do not pretend to, and we do not describe them as though they did.
| Stone Type | None |
| Weight (grams) | 60.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Silver |
| Occasion | Festival |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | KEYU-NAA2886 |
