Multicolor Gold-Plated Jadau Kundan Small Maang Teeka with Floral and Moon Motif - MT559

DETAILS Stone Setting : Jadau Kundan Finish : Gold-Plated Fastening : HookCRAFT STORY Mortantra's Jadau Kundan collection draws on one of India's oldest stone-setting crafts - a tradition carried by both the royal workshops of Rajasthan and the karigar ateliers of Gujarat - in which refined gold is worked around each stone to hold it without a single prong. We set silver-foiled stones into gold-plated brass and finish the metal by hand, bringing this royal-workshop craft within reach as accessible luxury.Jadau Kundan was perfected from the sixteenth century in the royal workshops of Jaipur and Bikaner and in the karigar quarters of Gujarat, where the same craft is long known as Pachi Kundan; artisans pressed purified gold around each stone in a bed of lac so it sat secure without claws or prongs, the reverse often turned into a second artwork in meenakari enamel. Mortantra's pieces carry that setting tradition forward in gold-plated metalwork, holding each stone the way the craft always has.THE PIECE A small gold-plated maang teeka set in the Jadau Kundan tradition, featuring stones set in silver foil against a gold-plated base. The multicolor colourway presents a floral and crescent-moon composition rendered in characteristically luminous Kundan stonework. The piece fastens with a hook fitting and is offered as a single piece. Its compact form makes it suited to festive and wedding-guest occasions alike.