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Kathmandu Silver Work, Coral Ring

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$290.00

Kathmandu Silver work in a ring completely handcrafted, set with a fine old natural 12mm round gemstone Coral, of good natural orange-red colour, with Corals and Turquoise in four window settings on the side of the gemstone mount.
Note the Gold bezel used in the setting of the 12mm gemstone Coral.
Ring size R to S. 24mm wide across the top, the band narrowing to 7mm at the rear. Total ring weight 21.2 grams.

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Kathmandu Silver Work in a ring completely handcrafted, set with gemstone Coral. The artisans and craftsmen of Kathmandu Valley have long enjoyed a reputation for excellence; Japanese temples requiring the finest work in bronze statues and figurines have frequently brought in Nepalese foundry experts to assist and advise; and the quality and craftsmanship of the Gold jewellery created by guild families in the Valley for the royal court and its courtesans has been justly acclaimed.
Some of those guild families moved seamlessly onto Silver jewellery production with the opening up of tourism in the 1950s. Kathmandu Silver work became a major business, despite virtually all the Silver and all the gemstones used in the trade needing to be imported.
The above handmade Kathmandu Silver ring is a period piece from the early 2000s, in a style that gained popularity in Kathmandu in the late 1990s, a style both exotic and ornate, solidly crafted, usually set with non-glitter gemstones such as Carnelian or Coral or Turquoise, and employing the “day and night” effect of first darkening the Silver with oxidization and then polishing the relief profile.
The above ring is set with a nice old orange-red gemstone Coral, and in four attached windows about the raised Coral setting column (two hemispheric and two diamond-shaped) are set Corals and Turquoise.
Note: as is very often the case with Kathmandu Silver jewellery, there is no Silver stamp, however, the Silver has been tested at over 90% Silver purity.

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