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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 410278, member: 2844&quot;]This is a souvenir from Bali, intended for home decor.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a hand in mudra. Mudras are religious hand positions, symbols that convey a specific message.</p><p>Yours is the mudra of increasing cosmic energy, transforming negative emotions to positive, and promoting higher thought. It is a mudra of purification, which is often seen on Hindu deities.</p><p>There are more mudras, in the context they were intended for, in this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/bali-art-deco-thread.30201/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/bali-art-deco-thread.30201/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/bali-art-deco-thread.30201/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Carving the hands separate from a statue is a recent development, copied from Thai bronze Buddha hands.</p><p>These are still being made, and yours looks pretty recent.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can use them for jewellery display, if you wish. You can use anything to display jewellery.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And sellers will call it jewellery display if it sells better that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the right way up, as you already thought:</p><p><img src="https://preview.ibb.co/kYTjuK/DSC09334.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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