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Show GRAND CARPET FOR ONE ONLY Is Gorgeous With Gold and Jewels and No One Has Sufficient Wealth to Buy It. The Gaekwar of Baroda has lent to the Victoria and Albert museum. South Kensington, one of the four magnificent panels which together j constitute the celebrated "pearl car- j pet of Baroda." These panels, with j other intended gifts, including a can- opy (the "Pearl Veil") and a set of I gold carpet-weights encrusted with i diamonds, were prepared in the reign of Khande Rao Gaekwar (1S56-1S70) probably at the instigation of his Mo hanimedan wife. ar. an offering to the tomb of Mohammed at Madina. The panel, which is suggestive of the wonders of the whole carpet consists con-sists of an arabesque design embroidered embroid-ered in pearls and colored glass beads with applied gold bosses and studs net with lasque (flat) diamonds and cao.ocnon (convex form) rubies, emeralds emer-alds and sapphires. I the center' a conventional full-blown flower encloses en-closes a large bass of soft gold mounted mount-ed with a rosette of diamonds, the field filled with jeweled palmettes a'tid flowers proceeding from leafy stem scrolling, encircling, and Interlacing on a-close ground of Iridescent seed- . pearls. In the border are twenty-four , diamond rosettes. |