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Once you enter the Royal Durbar Hall inside the Jai Vilas Palace Museum in Gwalior one can see Red Belgian chandelier at the entrance which weighs 1000 kgs and has 100 bulbs. There is also two huge Belgian chandeliers each of which is 3500 kgs 250 bulbs. These were purchased in Paris and assembled here. It is said that ten elephants stood on the roof of the Durbar Hall to check if the ceiling could take the load. You see one the two chandeliers. The ceiling and walls are very well designed with some intricate work with its Ceilings made out of 560kgs of melted gold. Also displayed are Persian carpets, cutglass and crystal ornaments, Chinese, Japanese and European art and bric-a-brac, Malabar and Madurai woodwork, a mechanical silver train which was used as drinks trolley and the gold paint
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