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The Czartoryski Salting Carpet. The whole field is surrounded by a narrow strip with the Persian inscription: "How many flowers are here, how many colors spring develops fresh on these flowers, so much for you your people wish you happy years", dedicated to the Shah, probably Tahmasp I, reigning in the years 1524–1576. A composition with the motif of animals fight, floral and floral ornaments, and above all, an analogous narrow border with a Persian inscription containing wishes for good luck for the Shah, connects the carpet from the Princes Czartoryski Museum with two so-called imperial carpets donated by the Tsar of Russia Peter the Great to Leopold I Habsburg, now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (43.121.1) and at the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (T8334). The carpet belonged to the Sieniawski family and was kept in the Puławy Palace, until around 1809 it was deposited in the Gothic House. It was probably captured at Vienna in 1683 by the Crown Field Hetman, Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski, and together with the rest of the spoil it became the property of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, great-grandson of the hetman. Zagrabiony pr