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When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection

November 18, 2007–January 27, 2008

Focus Gallery I

When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection presents 154 pieces of jewelry from South India, where goldsmith work has a long history. The exhibition complements Domains of Wonder as the people depicted in the Indian miniature paintings often wear the lavish kinds of jewelry represented in When Gold Blossoms.

When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection is organized by the Asia Society and Museum, New York. The National tour of the exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts. The national tour is made possible, in part, by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, with additional support from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation Fund for Collection-Based Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts.

Image: Gold pendant for a deity, South India, 18th–early 19th century, set with rubies and emeralds, some of them engraved, and diamonds, Collection of Susan L. Beningson 057.24

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