Last updated: October 2026 · Method: compiled from public listings and traveller reports; treat figures as planning aids, not quotations.
The doors of the City Palace are artworks at foot height, and three categories cover every door worth pausing at. The metal-clad doors are the first family: entryways sheathed in embossed silver and brass, the architectural branch of the same silverwork tradition that fills the palace treasuries, and they read best in raking morning light when the relief catches shadow. The painted doors are the second: wooden panels carrying the figural scenes the Mewar style took from walls into joinery, elephants, processions and deities rendered at door scale, usually protected under later lintels and consequently better preserved than the exterior stone. The spiked doors are the third and the most functional: elephant-defence studs driven through the timber at the gateways, the fortification logic of the great pols continued at single-door scale, and the reminder that this palace was built as a defence first. Together the three categories turn a palace walk into a door hunt, and the hunt costs nothing extra beyond attention.
The gates of the City Palace have interior cousins: the palace’s doors, detailed here.
The details
- The metal-clad doors are the embossed silver and brass entryways, the silver work’s architectural branch.
- The painted doors carry the figural panels the Mewar style took into joinery.
- The spikes are the elephant-defence studs, the gate logic at door scale.