Cleveland Museum of Art

Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol

Date

c. 150 BCE

Medium

gold

Culture

India, Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh, Shunga period (185–78 BCE)

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

These exceptionally fine pieces of gold jewelry would have been strung on a necklace. The auspicious symbols on either side of the egg-shaped bead are in the form of full blown lotus flowers with the seed pods carefully detailed, and trident-shaped forms decorated with stylized palmette motifs emanate down from the lotuses.

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