Necklace Flute

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	Flute Necklace - Silver List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $13.29
	Beautifully detailed silver flute necklace with B foot and open holes. So realistic you'll want to play

	Flute Necklace - Gold List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $14.99

	Pendant Ocarina - Deep Blue Sparkle - Necklace Flute List Price: $22.95 Sale Price: $14.95
	PENDANT OCARINA IN THE CLASSIC LEGEND OF ZELDA BLUE. GLOSS GLAZE. THESE SOUND OUTSTANDING. VERY FULL AND EXPRESSIVE TONE. FULLY CHROMATIC. 8 HOLES. ONE OCTAVE RANGE. SOFT WOOL NECKLACE INCLUDED. MADE FROM OVEN FIRED RIVER CLAY...

	Flute Earrings - Silver List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $12.88
	Flute Earrings - Silver

	Panpipe Flute - Circle Design - Leather Necklace List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $16.95
	High quality Panpipe. The unique circle design makes it quick & easy to reach all the notes. This style is also very strong, which makes it a great travel instrument. 6 notes. Low F#, G, A, B, C, high D...

	Ocarina Flute - Pendant with Soft Rope Necklace List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $12.95
	These sound outstanding. Very full and expressive tone. Fully chromatic. 8 holes. One octave range. Soft wool rope necklace included. Made from river clay. Eco-friendly instrument. Very easy to learn. For children & adults alike...

	Diamond-Cut Silver Plated Flute Necklace List Price: $12.99 Sale Price: $10.99
	Silver Plated, 1" Flute Necklace with 18" Chain

	Small Flute Sterling Silver Necklace List Price: $31.99 Sale Price: $28.99
	Sterling Silver Flute Charm with box, chain, and necklace. Value priced custom jewelry cast in sterling silver. Price is determined by the actual weight of the instrument replica. All of our merchandise is of excellent quality and is guaranteed to be ...

	Ocarina, Necklace, Soprano D 3x1.5", White List Price: $13.90 Sale Price: $15.95
	Ocarina. Origin Country: Pakistan. 6" L x 6" W x 7" H. Made by Mid-East.Ocarina, Necklace, Soprano D 3x1.5", White (Item Code: ONSD-W) Ocarina, Necklace, Soprano D. White Glazed clay, six finger holes, over an octave of tones, leather necklace included...

	Ocarina Necklace - Hand Painted Leaf Design - Pendant Flute List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $15.95
	Clay Ocarina with hand painted leaf design. The flattened shape gives this model a unique and haunting tone. Great for travel & camping. Cast from a tried and true Peruvian master mold. 8 holes. One Octave range...

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The Midas Touch In India

The wealthy Mughals who built the Taj Mahal and ruled India from 1526-1707 surrounded themselves with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and pearls which became an integral and dazzling part of their lives. Discerning and culture rulers, they supported many and varied artists, enabling them to produce jewelry, paintings, and household items in conditions that allowed them not only
financial freedom but the time to create their masterpieces.

The abundance of gems in India was so great the skill of these men raised everyday objects into works of art. Wherever a Mughal looked, beauty abounded. Even a lowly crutch top would be carved of jade and inset with gold and gems. In a village it would be made of wood. A Mughal backscratcher was made from jade with silver and gilded bronze fittings rather than formed from a base metal.

Mughals moved enameled game pieces around boards even as villagers used simpler pieces of more natural ingredients. A bowl? It could be rock crystal with gilded silver mounts in a palace and a tinned alloy in humble huts. Rich and poor alike smoked the water pipe (huqqa), but the bulbous water storage of the villager's huqqa might be brass, while in a palace it was beaten gold or inlaid nephrite jade. Cups, pots, spittoons and oil lamps were also carved from jade for the wealthy Mughals. Commonly used items were adorned with gems and shaped with graceful curves, scallops and flutes.

Indian artisans developed an exclusive process allowing them to set stones in a wide variation of patterns. They mounted diamonds, rubies, and emeralds into imaginative designs and catapulted this art form to a level previously unseen.

Jewelry was a natural display for gems. Wealthy women wore not only wrist bracelets, ankle bracelets and necklaces, but also arm bands, hair ornaments and forehead ornaments. Rings graced their ears, fingers and toes. The men wore arm bands, turban ornaments, pendants, amulets, and highly decorative daggers tucked into their cummerbunds.

Flamboyant as Mughal jewelry was, the unseen side was frequently finished handsomely enough to be displayed. One such example is a pendant set with rubies and diamonds to resemble a bird with the reverse side fully engraved in a more realistic representation of the same feathered creature.

One particular technique most definitely linked to the Mughals and their jewelry making is enameling. The finest of its kind in the world was created in the Royal Art Schools by talented and expressive artists. Europeans who brought the rudimentary version of enameling to India were soon outdistanced by Mughal-era Indians who took the process to undeniably higher levels. Imperial workshops created a constant stream of cups, rings, armbands, gaming pieces, pendants, daggers, boxes, swords, bracelets, toe rings, mouthpieces for a water pipe hoses, etc., from enamel of breathtaking quality.

Ivory, jade and rock crystal were frequently inlaid with scrolled gold which was in turn inlaid with high quality precious stones. It was not unusual for items to exhibit a combination of materials and techniques.

Gold and silver were hammered together into intricate designs that then gave a rich sheen to huqqas, jewelry, daggers, necklaces, pendants and battle items including axes, shields, and gun barrel rests.

Items both inside and outside the palace were transformed by the artists' hand and eye. The jewelers of the Mughals most certainly created the Midas Touch for their sovereigns.

About the Author

Sandra Wilson lived and taught in India for four years. While there she became fascinated with the Taj Mahal and curious about its background. Her curiosity led to library research, a university course, a return trip to India and then her novel TAJ. Read more at
http://www.taj-womanandwonder.com