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Full Description: Medal, Jaipur State, Jeypore Exhibition, Copper & Silver Medal (2), AD 1883, Obv: a building topped by a bell, surrounded by rays of a setting sun in a depressed center area, Nagari legend around upper border "Dati Dhamma Stati Jaya" (Where There is Truth There is Victory)/ "Sawai Jaipur" in the lower border, Signed "J. C. & W. Lord. FEC. Purdon Clarke. DEL.', Rev: a: a tablet in center to etch the name of the awardee, surrounded by ornamentation, date below, "JEYPORE EXHIBITION" written around, 64.3g, 50.75mm b: a tablet in center to etch the name of the awardee "CLASS 25/VEGETABLE DRUGS/TONK STATE/2ND PRIZE", surrounded by ornamentation, date below, "JEYPORE EXHIBITION" written around, with a loop to wear as a pendant, 64.7g, 50.84mm (Puddester # 883.3), choice very fine, Extremely Rare. The Jeypore Exhibition of 1883 is regarded as among the most important industrial exhibitions of the 19th century, where specimens of the best art work of India were curated under the patronage of Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II (1880–1922) brought together the work of artists and craftsmen from many regions of India, but gave special treatment to the neighbouring states of Rajasthan, and to the pupils of Jaipur's own recently established School of Art. It led to the establishment of a permanent museum of industrial arts in Jaipur, which still exists and continues to hold many of the original exhibits. One of many ambitious exhibitions that followed in the wake of the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Jaipur Exhibition was the first such to be held in an Indian state, coinciding with the International Exhibition in Calcutta and preceding the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London of 1886. |