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The crystal furniture (including an unused crystal bed ordered by Maharana Sajjan Singh) is unusual, but at more than double the base palace ticket price, it's a hard sell unless you're specifically into decorative arts - photography inside is banned and enforced.
In 1877, Maharana Sajjan Singh commissioned an extravagant order of crystal furniture and fittings from the Birmingham firm F. & C. Osler, including a crystal bed, dining table, sofa set, and wash basins. The Maharana died before the shipment's full completion and delivery, and the crated pieces sat unopened in storage for about 110 years. They were finally unpacked and put on public display in 1994 within the Fateh Prakash Palace wing of the City Palace complex, where the roughly 600-piece collection is billed as one of the largest private crystal collections in the world.
