This carpet was initially on long term loan to the South Kensington Museum (today called the V&A), from 1883, and it would be over twenty years before the museum officially acquired it, in 1910. At that time, the owner was the art-collector George Salting, who loaned so much (particularly Chinese porcelain) to the museum, that a dedicated gallery was organised just to display his collection. After Salting’s death in 1909, the collection was bequeathed to the V&A on a permanent basis. The carpet was discussed as “the Salting Carpet” in later scholarship (see below), but it was not the only carpet in the Salting Bequest.