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Antiques Magazine: ""What a beautiful shiny, gleaming book to brighten up Christmas."" ""this lavishly illustrated book celebrates the breath-taking dazzle and awesome technical craftsmanship of Indian jewellery."" ""offers real insight into the role of ornamentation and its significance in Indian culture."" ""A fascinating look into a continent as seen through its ancient traditions of personal decoration.""

Antiques Magazine: What a beautiful shiny, gleaming book to brighten up Christmas. this lavishly illustrated book celebrates the breath-taking dazzle and awesome technical craftsmanship of Indian jewellery. offers real insight into the role of ornamentation and its significance in Indian culture. A fascinating look into a continent as seen through its ancient traditions of personal decoration.

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Molly E. Aitken, an art historian who specialises in Indian art, has received numerous awards and scholarships including the Mellon Fellow, Columbia University Society of Fellows. She has written a numbers of books on various aspects of Indian decorative art and has curated several exhibitions such as Late 16th-century to Early 19th-century Indian Drawings, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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