[2][3] Originally a part of the five piece set, the carpet was commissioned by Khande Rao Gaekwad, the Maharaja of Baroda, in 1865.

[2] However, the maharajah died in 1870 before the donation was made and the pearl carpet remained in his family.

It was first exhibited in public at the Delhi Durbar in 1903, when it was still owned by the Gaekwad dynasty.

[5][6] The carpet made its second appearance in public when it was displayed in 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

At a Sotheby's auction in Doha in 2009, an anonymous buyer bought it for $5.5 million.