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The index covers every object, every gallery and every journal entry. It is built when the site is published, so it searches the live site rather than a preview.
Trade and craft terms are understood: polki resolves to uncut diamond, jadau to kundan work, mukhnal to hookah mouthpiece.
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- 01JewelleryGold, kundan, meenakari, polki, filigree and thewaNot yet catalogued online
- 02SilverwareWine decanters, hookahs, rose-water sprinklers — and some 250 antique silver hookah mouthpieces, shown over an in-built pondNot yet catalogued online
- 03Textiles & CostumesEmbroidered prayer mats, woven carpets, Kashmiri shawls, Persian carpets and vintage footwearNot yet catalogued online
- 04Paintings & ManuscriptsRajasthani royal miniatures, epic scenes, and manuscripts on palm leaf and wasliNot yet catalogued online
- 05Decorative ArtsBidri-ware, wooden inlay, glassware, jade carvings and traditional gamesNot yet catalogued online
- 06NumismaticsMauryan to the British Raj, including the minuscule gold coins of the Hoysala and Vijayanagara empiresNot yet catalogued online
- 07Arms & ArmouryDaggers, arrows, hunting knives, guns and shields, from the seventeenth century onwardNot yet catalogued online
- 08JainismEmbroidered textile scrolls, illustrated manuscripts and miniature paintings, from the seventeenth century onwardNot yet catalogued online
- 09AccessoriesVintage watches and clocks, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century eyewearNot yet catalogued online
