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Pachisi gaming pieces with rubies, emeralds, blue and yellow sapphires. India, Mughal Empire, 18th century

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Pachisi gaming pieces with rubies, emeralds, blue and yellow sapphires. India, Mughal Empire, 18th century

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Rock crystal casket with emeralds, rubies and gold. India, Mughal Empire, 17th-18th century

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Rock crystal casket with emeralds, rubies and gold. India, Mughal Empire, 17th-18th century

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Shah Jahan's gold archery ring, with diamonds and rubies. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Shah Jahan's gold archery ring, with diamonds and rubies. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Jade dagger hilt with rubies, emeralds, pearls, coral, spinels, sapphires, and glass set in gold. India, Mughal Empire, 1850

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Jade dagger hilt with rubies, emeralds, pearls, coral, spinels, sapphires, and glass set in gold. India, Mughal Empire, 1850

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Gold jugs covered with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Gold jugs covered with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Two daggers with jade handles decorated with gold, rubies, and emeralds. India, 18th century

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Two daggers with jade handles decorated with gold, rubies, and emeralds. India, 18th century

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The fruit knife of queen Nur Jahan, emperor Jahangir's 20th wife, with parrot's head handle made of jade, ruby and emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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The fruit knife of queen Nur Jahan, emperor Jahangir's 20th wife, with parrot's head handle made of jade, ruby and emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Gold box set with 103 Colombian emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 1635 AD

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Gold box set with 103 Colombian emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 1635 AD

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Gold ring with sapphire cabochon. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 14th century

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Gold ring with sapphire cabochon. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 14th century

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Spoon. India, probably Mughal, 1st half 17th century. Carved from nephrite jade, inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds. Loaned to LACMA from the al-Sabah collection, Kuwait

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Spoon. India, probably Mughal, 1st half 17th century. Carved from nephrite jade, inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds. Loaned to LACMA from the al-Sabah collection, Kuwait

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A box made of emerald and gold, topped with a small diamond. Mughal Empire, India, around 1635 AD

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A box made of emerald and gold, topped with a small diamond. Mughal Empire, India, around 1635 AD

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A plait ornament from India, made of gold, and inset with rock crystal, rubies, emeralds, and amethysts. 18th–19th century CE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum

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A plait ornament from India, made of gold, and inset with rock crystal, rubies, emeralds, and amethysts. 18th–19th century CE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum

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Stupa railing with female figure. India, Gupta Empire, 5th century AD

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Stupa railing with female figure. India, Gupta Empire, 5th century AD

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Gouache painting of a European woman in Mughal costume and jewellery. India, 19th century.

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Gouache painting of a European woman in Mughal costume and jewellery. India, 19th century.

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Panel depicting the birth of Buddha, made up of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, garnets, quartz, pearls, amber, coral, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and semiprecious stones. Nepal, 18th-19th century

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Panel depicting the birth of Buddha, made up of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, garnets, quartz, pearls, amber, coral, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and semiprecious stones. Nepal, 18th-19th century

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Mughal spectacles set with flat cut emerald lenses, in silver and gold frames mounted with old-cut smaller diamonds and emeralds, India, lenses circa 17th century, frames 19th century

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Mughal spectacles set with flat cut emerald lenses, in silver and gold frames mounted with old-cut smaller diamonds and emeralds, India, lenses circa 17th century, frames 19th century

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A Mughal pendant of white nephrite jade set with rubies and emeralds in gold, and with a pendent emerald bead. Made in India in c. 1610-1620 CE, now part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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A Mughal pendant of white nephrite jade set with rubies and emeralds in gold, and with a pendent emerald bead. Made in India in c. 1610-1620 CE, now part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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Flower bouquet from late 17th century Florence or Vienna. Made of gold, partially enameled, silver, gilt, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, blue sapphires, hyacinths, and hessonites. Part of the Imperial Treasury, Vienna

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Flower bouquet from late 17th century Florence or Vienna. Made of gold, partially enameled, silver, gilt, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, blue sapphires, hyacinths, and hessonites. Part of the Imperial Treasury, Vienna

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Jade dagger handle shaped like a horse. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Jade dagger handle shaped like a horse. India, Mughal Empire, 17th century

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Byzantine collier; late 6th-7th century; gold, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts and pearls

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Byzantine collier; late 6th-7th century; gold, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts and pearls

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