A BRASS OPENWORK HANUMAN TALISMANIC PENDANT

Deccan, Southern India, 19th century
Of circular form, depicting the monkey god in relief, his right hand raised, his left holding the stem of the magic herb, a figure lying below, a seven-headed cobra canopy above with a diminutive figure with hands in anjali mudra, six lines of Telugu script on the reverse, 21cm by 18.5cm