Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — GRAND CARPET FOR ONE ONLY [ARTICLE]

GRAND CARPET FOR ONE ONLY

le Gorgeous With Gold and Jewels and No One Has Sufficient Wealth to fitly It. The Gaekwar of Baroda has lent to Che Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington, one of the four magnificent panels which together constitute the celebrated “pearl carpet of Baroda.” These panels, with other intended gifts, including a canopy .(the “Pearl Veil”) and a set of

gold carpet-weights encrusted with diamonds, were prepared In the reign of Khande Rao Gaekwar (1866-1870), probably at the Instigation of his Mohammedan wife, as an offering to the tomb of Mohammed at Madina. The panel, which is suggestive of the wonders of the whole carpet/'consists of an arabesque design embroidered In pearls and colored glass beads with applied gold bosses and studs set with lasque (flat) diamonds and cabochon (jponyex form) rubies, emeralds and sapphires. In the center a

conventional full-blown flower encloses a large bass of soft gold mounted with a rosette of diamonds, the field filled with Jeweled palmejttes and flowers proceeding from leary stetAs scrolling, encircling, and interlacing on a close ground of Iridescent seedpearls. In the border are twenty-four diamond rosettes. v