| Metal | Brass |
| Weight (g) | 29.00 |
| Colour | Green |
| Occasion | Festival |
A pair of jhumkas in gold-tone brass. An open lotus sits at the lobe, the bell below it is set all round with coloured stones, and a close fringe of small pearls finishes the rim.
A jhumka is a bell, and the bell is the point of it. The dome here is cast hollow so the pair stays light, and the flare at the bottom is what lets it swing clear of the jaw rather than sitting flat against it.
The lotus at the top is drawn as a stylised flower rather than a botanical one — petals reduced to a repeating unit that can be scaled to fit any space. It stands for purity and for beginnings, and its concentric rings give a stone-setter a natural reason to step the stones outward in size.
Stones run right around the widest part of the bell instead of sitting in a single band. Setting all over is noticeably more work and it is the first detail dropped when a design is cheapened, so it is worth noticing here.
The pearl fringe does something no faceted stone can: it gives back a soft, diffused light, which calms a design that would otherwise be all glitter. It also adds movement — a fringe catches the eye when the wearer moves, where a solid edge only catches it when the light does.
Brass under a gold polish, with coloured glass stones and small artificial pearls. Glass is the right choice for the colour at this price: it takes a deeper, more saturated shade than cut crystal does, and against warm gold tone that depth is what the design needs.
The weight in your hand is the brass; the colour is the polish. Hollow construction is what allows a bell this wide to be worn for a whole evening.
Seven colourways are stocked: Green, Aqua, Baby Pink, Mint, Black, Blue and White. The colour refers to the stones around the bell; the metal is the same warm gold tone in every one. Each swatch on this page shows the actual shade.
Wear them with the hair tied back or up — a jhumka of this size is lost against loose hair, and the bell needs room to swing. They belong with a saree or a lehenga more than with a high-collared kurta.
With a heavy necklace as well this becomes a great deal of ornament. One or the other is usually enough.
Nothing here is precious and none of it is sold as such. What you are buying at this price is design rather than material, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to buy — the shape is several centuries old and it works at a fraction of the weight of the gold version.
Treat the plating as the wearing part. Keep it away from water, perfume and hair spray, put the pair on last when you dress, and wipe them with a dry cotton cloth before they go away. Stored dry in a zip pouch with the air pressed out the finish lasts for years; left in a humid bathroom it will not last a season.
| Metal | Brass |
| Weight (grams) | 29.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Green |
| Occasion | Festival |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | D9-14B474D8DF |
