More than any other country, India has elevated jewellery to a fine art, evident in sparkling courtly objects and finery composed of Columbian emeralds, Kashmir sapphires, Burmese and Ceylonese rubies, Golconda diamonds, and of course jade and enamel, two fields in which Indian jewellery has long excelled.

The exhibition will guide visitors chronologically from the rise of the Mughal Empire, founded in 1526 by Babur, a descendant of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, through to the most contemporary age, including treasures of the Maharajas, the Indian princes who during the British Raj from 1858 to 1947 patronised great European jewellers such as Cartier, Mauboussin and Mellerio dits Meller.

More than any other country, India has elevated jewellery to a fine art, evident in sparkling courtly objects and finery composed of Columbian emeralds, Kashmir sapphires, Burmese and Ceylonese rubies, Golconda diamonds, and of course jade and enamel, two fields in which Indian jewellery has long excelled.

The exhibition will guide visitors chronologically from the rise of the Mughal Empire, founded in 1526 by Babur, a descendant of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, through to the most contemporary age, including treasures of the Maharajas, the Indian princes who during the British Raj from 1858 to 1947 patronised great European jewellers such as Cartier, Mauboussin and Mellerio dits Meller.