Women's earrings

She is a poor tribal woman but she wears her jewellery proudly. A vendor in Mahabaleshwar. Gold is the preferred metal in India. And everyone owns gold, the poor as well as the rich.

Another lady with her gold earrings and black and white gold mangalsutra.

The same woman vendor selling snacks and drinks on a hot day in Mahabaleshwar.

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Ancient Middle Eastern Jewellery

Ancient Middle Eastern Jewellery in the Dubai Museum. Intricate and heavy. The first photograph is of heavy bracelets and necklaces, often worn in ancient times. They are made of silver.

The rounded piece of heavy silver jewellery so intricately carved is an anklet. The one below that is a hair decoration.

A heavy necklace made of large silver coins, and red and silver beads.

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Chinese Emperor's Crowns

The crowns are from the Dingling museum, near Beijing, and were excavated from tombs of dead royals. Royals from th Ming dynasty were buried with their valuables.

This is one of the most spectacularly beautiful and delicate imperial crowns, golden in color, and made from a gold net. It is the Emperor's Dragon Crown.

Ornate jeweled crowns were also found in plenty. For example, Phoenix crowns were worn by the Chinese empresses and also other important noblewomen on certain ceremonial occasions. They were like ornamental head-dresses, decorated with designs of dragons, phoenixes, and encrusted with gold, pearls, and precious stones. The designs kept changing according to the fashion and naturally the more the wealth and status of the woman, the more ornate was her crown. In fact it was mandated the number of dragons, phoenixes and pheasants that could be worn by a certain woman. It depended on her status. Blue is an imperial color in China.

Next to the white crown encrusted with jewels, this was what was written on a plastic plate (shortened version):

The crowns of the Empresses were dug up from Ding Ling. The dragon design is welded by the embossing method, and that is how the hollow shape is made, giving a three-dimensional effect. The design of the phoenix is plastered with a bird's feather. There are pearls and precious stones used for decoration of the crowns. In one of the many crowns there are more than 3500 grains of pearls and more than 150 pieces of precious stones!

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Tourists buying jewellery in Istanbul, Turkey

This is a small jewellery shop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey. This is a popular market with tourists. This shop is selling charms used to ward off the evil eye. These are the typically round blue artefacts with the image of an eye in the centre. They can be sold as pendants or earrings or magnets. This shop is also selling other small trinkets like bangles and necklaces.

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Colourful Bangles from Hyderabad

These are photographs of decorative and fancy bangles from the bangle market in old Hyderabad city, in Andhra Pradesh in India. This is a famous bangle market of the old city.

I almost didn't post this last photo as the lighting is bad. However, I liked the composition.

These photographs have been given to this blog by Purpler.