Feeling bohemian? Want your gold to speak the language of carefree love and a life lived in gay abandon? Look no further than this hip ornament clad in a jumbled mass of black glass-bead strings that have large corals woven into them. Are they really corals, you might ask. No, they aren't. Genuine coral beads, at more than a thousand bucks a carat, are expensive, and need proper maintenance. Also, you wouldn't want to change them even if a colour makeover is desired because they're too valuable to chuck. For a pendant of a paltry four grams, glass coral does well both look-wise and from the investment point of view ; plus you can freely change the beads for shape and colour and material whenever you feel the need to. As for the pendant, it's a sweet chandrapuli of wire telephones, ring-rejis and chhela topa with a polish-pat centre and triple barfi crown. The two kalkas and a topa drop at the bottom meld well into the design and balance the solid upper section nicely. All in all, a small bit of treasure crafted by hand in hallmarked 22K gold that makes a nuanced case for going hippie all over again.
