Crystal Gallery (City Palace)
UDAIPUR

Crystal Gallery (City Palace)

SITUATIONAL
HOURSSame as City Palace, separate ticket line
ENTRY FEESeparate ticket on top of the City Palace entry (price changes often - check at the counter)verify same-day
TIME NEEDED30-45 min
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

The crystal furniture (including an unused crystal bed ordered by Maharana Sajjan Singh) is unusual, but it costs extra on top of the base palace ticket, so it's a hard sell unless you're specifically into decorative arts - photography inside is banned and enforced.

HISTORY & BACKGROUND

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.

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