The Pearl Carpet Of Baroda

The pearl carpet of baroda is 2 64 meters long 1 73 meters wide and is made from a mixture of silk and deer hide.

The pearl carpet of baroda. Its design was inspired by the indian mughal period and the safavid period of iran but its motifs could easily be ignored if it weren t from the millions of precious stones covering it. Silk pearl gemstone metal. Gold glass cotton wool. Deerskin and silk embellished with pearls diamonds rubies and emeralds.

The pearl carpet of baroda creator. Furniture and furnishings rights. 173 centimetres 68 in created. National museum of qatar medium.

It is known that the maharaja intended to give this as an offering to adorn tomb of the prophet mohammad in medina. Pearl carpet of baroda. The baroda carpet of pearls which closely resembles the tippet at tehran described by brydge. This carpet is said to be ten and one half feet long by six feet wide and to be made up of strings of pearls except that a border eleven inches wide and also center ornaments are worked out in diamonds.

19th century location created. 264 centimetres 104 in width. National museum of qatar. The pearl carpet of baroda which was mainly composed of an estimated 1 5 million basra pearls is a living testimony to the flourishing pearl trade that existed in the past between the persian gulf and the indian subcontinent.

Originally a part of a five piece set the baroda pearl carpet was commissioned by maharaja khanderao gaekwad to give as an offering to the prophet s tomb in medina in 1865. Embroidered with over 1 5 million of the highest quality gulf pearls and adorned with precious stones such as emeralds diamonds and sapphires the pearl carpet of baroda stands as a spectacular. Pearl carpet was created in the early 1860s on the orders of one of the richest indian maharaja the ruler of baroda khanda rao.