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Kundan, meaning pure gold, [1] is a traditional form of Indian gemstone jewellery involving a gem set with a gold foil between the stones and its mount, usually for elaborate necklaces and other jewellery. [2] [3]
The company's stores sell a variety of jewellery in diamonds, gold, platinum, Murano glass and precious stones. Founded [2] by Indian expatriate Firoz Merchant in 1989, the first Pure Gold Jewellers store was established in Dubai. Merchant has focused on gradual expansion of the brand's retail network. [3] The company entered the Indian market ...
Gold armlets and rings from Fort Canning: East Javanese style, found at Fort Canning Hill: 1928 [1] 7: Portrait of Sir Stamford Raffles: Portrait of the founder of Singapore by noted painter Xu Beihong: 1939 [1] 8: Natural history drawings of flora and fauna: Collection of 477 drawings commissioned by William Farquhar: 19th century [1] 9: A ...
In the early 1990s, India's exchange crisis was resolved, and Titan Company shifted the focus of the brand to the Indian market. A pilot plant was set up in August 1992 and the production began in 1994, and Tanishq's first store opened in 1996. Tanishq was the first jewellery retail chain in India. [5]
Firoz Merchant (born 1958) is an Indian businessman, and philanthropist based in the United Arab Emirates. [2] [3] [4] He is the Founder and Chairman of Pure Gold Group, which consists of FGM Holding, Pure Gold Jewellers, Pure Gold Real Estate Development, La Moda, and Pure Gold Manufacturing.
The Indian subcontinent has a long jewellery history, which has gone through various changes via cultural influence and politics for more than 5,000–8,000 years. [ citation needed ] Because India had an abundant supply of precious metals and gems, it prospered financially through export and exchange with other countries.
Amrapali Jewels, is a jewellery house founded in 1978 by Rajiv Arora and Rajesh Ajmera in Jaipur. [2] Amrapali designs, produces and distributes tribal, fine and uncut gemstone jewellery. The brand has stores in India and London .
Thailand's "Queen Sirikit Navaratna" necklace.. Navaratna (Sanskrit: नवरत्न) is a Sanskrit compound word meaning "nine gems" or "ratnas".Jewellery created in this style has important cultural significance in many southern, and south-eastern Asian cultures as a symbol of wealth, and status, and is claimed to yield talismanic benefits towards health and well-being.