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Akbar II on an elephant

Delhi, India (made)

1827 (painted)

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Rosewater sprinkler

Mughal Empire (made)

ca. 1700 (made)

unknown (production)

Silver, gilt and worked in repousse on a ring-matted ground with a design of flowers, birds and animals, the foot and central knop pierced

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This collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah al-Thani features 60 significant precious objects of various artistic jewelry styles from India, from the period of the Mughals - one of the richest in the arts - to the present day.

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Cuirass (Char-aina)

Date: late 18th–early 19th century

Culture: Indian or Iranian

Medium: Steel, gold, textile

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When your normal court finery just won’t do. Mughal robes worn by Captain John Foote of the East India Company for his portrait in 1761. In the collection of the York Museums Trust. Portrait is by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

This is what they have to say about this ensemble:

Fine white muslin, embroidered with a regular pattern of floral motifs in blue-black and yellow silk, gold-coloured metal thread and gold-coloured plate (possibly silver-gilt). Neck and front edges, hem edge and wrists are all piped with thin yellow silk. Close-fitting bodice, the extended fronts wrapping right over left, kimono-style. High, v-shaped neckline, with a self-fabric collar band. The front edges of the bodice and the collar band are faced with plain white bias-cut muslin. Very long, narrow sleeves, set plainly onto the bodice. (This was meant to be worn pushed up so that the gathers show on the lower arm.) Very full, ankle-length skirt, set onto the bodice in tight gathers except across the left front, where it is set on plainly. The skirt is made from several full-width panels of fabric, with the addition of long narrow gores at the front edges. The side-seams are open for 18cm. from the hem. Both front and hem edges are faced with plain white bias-cut muslin.

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Mughal Empire

Painted in opaque watercolour on paper

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Watered steel, gold, pale greenish grey nephrite jade, velvet. Fashioned using a wide variety of techniques.

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Mughal Empire (Almost certainly made in the imperial workshops)

17th century (made)

White nephrite jade, rubies, emeralds and diamonds set in gold.

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Mughal Empire

1700-1750 

White nephrite jade, and gold inset with rubies, emeralds, probably topaz, with gold foil, rock crystal and pearl

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Ceremonial spoon

Mughal Empire (made)

ca. 1600 (made)

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1650 Cabinet

India

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Taj Mahal in 1836

Architectural Drawing

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1820 painting on watercolour

This seems to be a painting of the shish mehal

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chilling 

1652

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Blazed. 1750 

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Six drawings of the Mughal architecture at Agra and Delhi

Agra, India (possibly, made)

ca.1825 (made)

The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to commemorate his deceased wife, Arjumand Banu Begum, better known as Mumtaz Mahal (‘Elect of the Palace’), who died in 1631, shortly after giving birth to their fourteenth child. Work was begun in 1632, and the mausoleum was completed in 1653. When his son Aurangzeb seized the throne, Shah Jahan was imprisoned for the rest of his life in Agra Fort, from which he would gaze wistfully at the Taj Mahal in the distance, When he died, in January 1666, his body was interred there alongside that of his wife. Their cenotaphs, depicted here, and the screen that surrounds them are made of white marble inlaid with pietra dura.