Hyderabad is famously known as the city of pearls. The metropolitan city is also known for its fine detailed artistry. There are many unique Hyderabadi pieces of jewellery, with the traditional ones having their lineage from the great Nizam's periodic jewellery. Most of the Hyderabadi brides beautify themselves with pompous pieces of jewellery made fashionable by the Nizam legacy.
Elegantly impressive earrings like the Karanphool and Chandbaliyan belong to this category of traditional, etched glamorized jewellery.
The Hyderabadi Chand Bali is a well known traditional decorative ornament for the ears shaped in a crescent moon. The earrings got their name from an old town called Chand Bali near the banks of the Bhaitharni in Bhadrak district, Odisha state. These earrings have been considered as a staple adornment for royalties from time immemorial.
The name of the earrings so popularized as half moon ear embellishments, got their name from the Urdu word corresponding ear drops. The word "Chand" means crescent moon and "bali" means ring styled danglers or droppings.
There are varied models of the Chand Bali earrings; some very simple in patterning while others with twin crescent shaped flops. The Hyderabadi Chand Bali earrings have kundan work frippery emulating a distinct charm by blending different artistry types and craftsmanship. Some astonishingly elegant earrings are speckled along the projected crescent bordering with precious stones like rubies and emeralds.
Hyderabadi pearls supersede any other fanciful adorning because of its glimmer. Thus vivacious pearls amplify Hyderabadi Chand Bali earrings.
Hyderabadi jewellery in general bedecked with uncut diamonds is alluring to spectators by itself. Chand Bali earrings are also extravagantly embedded with uncut diamonds transcending the perception of being showered in heavenly aura.
The traditional and ever so dynamic contemporary trends are yoked together in Hyderabadi Chand Bali earrings' craft. By adorning these earrings, gorgeous ladies could elicit many amused onlookers. The most bewitching aspect of Chand Bali earrings is its ethnicity and fashionable appeal towards the younger generation. Even minimalistic accessory lovers fall for Chand Bali earrings modelled in white metal and frilled with elegant sloopish pearls.