Oval Jadau Ring with Enamelled Border

This is the most Mughal-looking piece in the range. A large oval cabochon fills the centre — domed, unfaceted, pale and slightly cloudy, the way a real turquoise or aquamarine would be — and around it runs a dense double border of small stones alternating red and green.

The piece in detail

Red and green around a pale centre is not an arbitrary colour choice. It is the standard navratna-derived palette of Mughal and Rajput court jewellery, where ruby red and emerald green were the two stones used to frame a larger pale one, and it survived into Jaipur jadau work almost unchanged. Seen from a distance the alternation reads as a single rich border rather than as individual stones, which is exactly the intended effect.

The centre stone being a cabochon rather than a faceted stone matters too. Mughal jewellery almost never faceted its large stones; it polished them into domes to show colour and depth, and left the sparkle to the small surrounding stones. This ring follows that logic correctly, which is why it reads as traditional rather than as a modern cluster ring.

On the hand

It is a large ring — it covers the width of the finger and stands proud of it — and it is priced accordingly. Wear it alone, on the index or middle finger, with a silk saree, a lehenga or anything where a Mughal reference is the point. It is not an everyday ring and it is not one for gloves.

Fit

There is no ring size to get right. The band is an open coil that flexes, so it fits a range of fingers. Set it once with the ring off the hand, gently, and leave it; metal tires from being flexed, not from being worn.

Colours and availability

Three colourways are stocked. Baby Pink is the best-stocked and the softest. Red is the deepest and the most traditional. Multi mixes the border colours more freely across the setting.

Materials and care

Stones are cubic zirconia and coloured glass. CZ is grown rather than mined and cut like a diamond; the glass is chosen for depth of colour. Neither is a precious stone and neither is described here as one.

The metal is brass with a gold-tone finish over it, not gold, and nothing on this page describes it as gold.

The photographs on this page are of the piece itself under ordinary light rather than a studio set-up, so what you see is close to what arrives. Screens do shift colour, golds especially, so if an exact shade matters to you, ask on the enquiry and we will describe it against something familiar.

Take it off before washing, swimming or sleeping, wipe it with a dry cloth, and keep it in a pouch rather than loose where other pieces can scuff it. This is a prepaid order like every other on Keyura; no COD option exists.