Framed Photograph: Raja of Rutlam Long Sideboards The front doors have been

The front doors have been modified from the original closed front to make it more functional

These decorative Indian soap dishes are carved in the shape of a shell

small shutters would have been fitted to the iron rings around the mihrab arch opening

many-petalled (bahu-dala) carving radiates outward like a mandala/yantra

A painted antique Chinese sideboard from Qinghai province with very well preserved high quality original painting

Framed Photograph: Raja of Rutlam Long Sideboards The front doors have beenThis photograph was taken in the British Raj of the Raja of Rutlam. It's an excellent quality copy taken from the original glass plate. It has then been framed in a black wooden frame. Rutlam was the premier Rajput state in the Malwa political charge of the Central India Agency. The state was originally granted to Maharaja Ratan Singh, scion of the Jodhpur House, by the Moghul Emperor Shah Jehan, for his conspicuous services against the Persians in