One of a pair of bangles, Madras, India, about 1870 (Image Credit : V&A Museum)
Gold and gilt metal set with rubies (Called as kemp). Each bangle has a flat gold band, engraved, with two flat square plates arranged on the top lozenge-wise; on each of these plates is a parrot and flower, set with rubies.
Bangles of this type, from about 1870, with flat gold squares set at an angle projecting from the hoop, seem to have been very common in South India at this time. They are worn by many of the women depicted in an album of paintings from about 1830 from Thanjavur, which shows castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and procession scenes.
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