Bejeweled Mughal-Era Glasses Expected to Fetch up to $3.5 Million at Auction

Bejeweled Mughal-Era Glasses Expected to Fetch up to $3.5 Million at Auction
In this file photo, people pass by a Sotheby's auction house logo in the Russian History Museum in Moscow, on May 23, 2007. Maxim Marmur/AFP via Getty Images
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Two pairs of bejewelled Mughal-era spectacles set with diamond and emerald lenses are expected to fetch up to $3.5 million each when they are auctioned in London on Wednesday, Oct. 27.

The glasses were commissioned by an unknown 17th-century prince, auction house Sotheby’s said, with the precious stone lenses believed to boost spiritual enlightenment.