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In the upper section, emeralds, rubies and crystals are cut to fit each leaf with as many as seven small, shaped rubies on one leaf, though most have only one or two. The veins of the leaves have been carved onto the shaped gemstones before setting. At the back, relief decoration on the surface of the jade also suggests flowers and leaves. A ring behind the large rosette would have held a feather plume, while the stem would have been used to fit the ornament into a turban. Wearing turban jewels was originally the prerogative of rulers and the royal family in the Mughal empire. By the 18th century, as Mughal power diminished, regional rulers took this emblem of royalty for themselves. \r\nThe turban jewel was part of the collection of Indian hardstones, including imperial Mughal artefacts, owned by Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie. He sold much of his collection to the Indian Museum in Leadenhall Street, London, and his objects were transferred in 1879 to this museum. This turban jewel, exceptionally, was a gift by Guthrie to the Indian Museum.","physicalDescription":"Turban ornament: \r\nThe jewel is made in two sections, the upper part fashioned from a single block of white nephrite jade and worked at the back to include a holder for a feather plume.  The setting of gemstones is the work of a highly skilled craftsman, with each petal filled by two or three stones carved to fit the curving spaces exactly.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"jade","id":"AAT11119"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"White nephrite jade, and gold inset with rubies, emeralds, probably topaz, with gold foil, rock crystal and pearl. The source of the pearl is probably a saltwater oyster (Genus: Pinctada).","categories":[{"text":"Jewellery","id":"THES48930"},{"text":"Gemstones","id":"THES270329"},{"text":"India Museum","id":"THES286062"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mughal","id":"AAT18939"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2006AY1953","2006AT0541","2006AF5986","2017JU1130","2018KT4935"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"MIADoha","id":"THES287907"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Turban ornament","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Mughal empire","id":"THES262021"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1700-1750","earliest":"1700-01-01","latest":"1750-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Col. 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Transferred in 1879 from the India Museum to the South Kensington Museum, which later became the Victoria & Albert Museum.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Turban ornament, Mughal empire, jade and gemstones, first half of the eighteenth century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"PIACENTI, Kirsten Aschengreen, Susan Stronge, Cristina Del Mare, Rita Sharma et al., \r\nGioielli dall’India dai Moghul al Novecento, La Rinascente, Milan, 1996, catalogue number 143, p.176\r\n\r\nHENDLEY, Thomas Holbein, The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, Vol. XII, 1906-9, Part I  pl.4 no. 15\r\nHALL, M. 'Indisches Kunsthandwerk', Indien und Südostasien, Berlin, 1971, pl.204b\r\nBLACK, J.A., A History of Jewels, London, 1974, illustrated on p.205\r\nFor information on turban ornaments, see:\r\nSusan Stronge, Jewels for the Mughal court, The V&A Album V, 1986, pp. 308-317\r\nUNTRACHT, Oppi, Traditional Jewelry of India, Thames and Hudson, London, 1997, pp.380-388\r\n\r\n\r\nRogers, Emma: Arts of Asia, vol. 45, no. 5, September - October 2015,   \"The Parasol Foundation Trust Programme: digitising and cataloguing the V&A's South Asian collection.\",   p.111, pl. 37."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Susan Stronge, \"Colonel Guthrie's Collection. Jades of the Mughal Era\", Oriental Art, Winter 1993/1994, vol. XXXIX, no. 4, fig. 11"},{"reference":{"text":"The Indian Heritage. 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