{"product_id":"six-tusked-elephant-god-cuff-bangle-sterling-silver","title":"Six-Tusked Elephant God Cuff Bangle – Sterling Silver Bracelet","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSix-Tusked Elephant God Cuff Bangle – Sterling Silver Bracelet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Elephant of Asia · Six Tusks, Born Divine · Fire-Gilded 24K Gold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifty-one grams of silver, and six tusks of gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCount them. Nothing alive is born with six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the whole point, and it has been the point for three thousand years — carved on temple gates across the Deccan, painted on monastery walls in the Himalaya, walking in gold armour ahead of the kings of Siam and Angkor. Two tusks is an animal. Six is a god, and he was never anything else. He did not become divine. He arrived that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe sits at the terminal of an open cuff, and he is not a motif. The ears are cut free of the ground and curl at their outer edges. The trunk comes down in a heavy spiral and tucks beneath itself. The skull has weight in it — under the oxidised black you can still read the muscle across the brow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA gold trident rises between the eyes. A line of gold beads runs the length of the trunk. In the crown above, one cabochon of Nanhong agate: opaque, blood-dark, the red old carvers reached for when they wanted a thing to look alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOPEN CUFF · SELECT YOUR SIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable for wrists from 16 cm to 22 cm — choose your size above before adding to cart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEach cuff is hand-set to that size, and the open back allows a small final adjustment.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to measure:\u003c\/strong\u003e wrap a strip of paper around your wrist where the cuff will sit, mark where it meets, and measure that length in centimetres. Round up to the nearest size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDesign Philosophy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. Six tusks. Nothing in nature has six.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo tusks would have been easier and no one would have counted. We carved six — fire-gilded, curving forward in pairs at three depths, each pair cut free of the one beneath it without the trunk losing its line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix is the number that takes him out of the animal world. It is an image of the complete and the fearless: a thing that has nothing left to develop and nothing left to be afraid of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. An animal first. A god second.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeities carved as symbols come out flat. We carved the beast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe brow is heavy. The trunk has slack in it where it curls, the way real weight hangs. The ears are thin at the rim and thick at the root. Look at him from the side and there is a skull under that silver, not a relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eyes are gilded, so they find the light before the rest of the face does. That is the only trick on the whole head, and it is the reason he looks back at you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3. Gold placed where a god is crowned\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe six tusks. The trident between the eyes. The beaded line down the trunk. The granulation across the crown — gold spheres set one at a time under a 40× microscope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose spheres are the smallest work on the bangle. By the law of this craft, they took the longest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. Eight auspicious symbols, along the back\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the cuff lies against the underside of the wrist, eight gold symbols run in sequence through silver scrollwork: the \u003cstrong\u003eparasol\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003egolden fish\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003etreasure vase\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003elotus\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003econch\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eendless knot\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003evictory banner\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003edharma wheel\u003c\/strong\u003e. Emblems carried across the whole of Asia, older than any single temple that claims them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt their centre, held in a gold rosette, a turquoise cabochon. Blue on gold on blackened silver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost people who see this bangle on your wrist will never see this side of it. That was always the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5. Left rough on purpose\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing here is polished smooth. The recesses are oxidised almost to black; the raised planes are brought back by hand. Graver strokes stay where they fell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sacred object that looks new looks like a souvenir. This one is meant to look like it was dug up, and then kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band runs sixteen millimetres across, swelling to twenty-three where he sits. Fifty-one grams: heavy enough that you know all day it is there, light enough that you never take it off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Meaning\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe elephant is the oldest sacred animal in Asia, and the one that never had to be made frightening to be respected. He does not hurry. He does not posture. He remembers everything, and he moves anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix tusks make him something else again — not a strong animal, but the finished form of strength: valour without violence, power that has stopped needing to prove itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay your strength never need proving.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay you move slowly and arrive first.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay what you carry never bend you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy we keep returning to this form\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe elephant and the garuda are the two subjects we have spent the most years on. They are the hardest things we make — six tusks that must clear one another, feathers that must be freed row by row, gold that must be fused a millimetre at a time under glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are not interested in making the most of them. We are interested in finding out how far hand-carved silver can be taken before it stops being jewellery and becomes sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMaterial \u0026amp; Craftsmanship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e S925 sterling silver, traditional fire-gilded 24K gold, natural Nanhong agate, natural turquoise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBand width:\u003c\/strong\u003e 16 mm, widening to 23 mm at the elephant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 51 g\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFit — open cuff:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eselect your wrist size above, from 16 cm to 22 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAdjustment:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eopen at the back, so the fit can be eased slightly by hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacred elephant cuff bangle, Asian mythology bracelet for men and women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraditional Fire-Gilding\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGold foil is fused onto the surface of S925 sterling silver at approximately 900°C. Gold's own melting point is 1063°C, so the work happens inside a narrow window: hot enough for the gold to bond, not hot enough for it to run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery detail is then engraved and shaped by hand under a 40× microscope. The smaller the surface, the harder it gets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not ordinary gold plating: the gold is fired into the silver rather than deposited on its surface, so it becomes part of the piece — a real weight of gold, not a film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaring for the stones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe silver and the gold will take anything. The stones will not. Nanhong agate and turquoise are both porous, and turquoise in particular darkens if it sits in perfume, lotion or sweat. Take the cuff off before swimming or bathing, and wipe it dry after wear. 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