The Hunting Carpet of Pius XI

I do not know know why the Hunting Carpet of Pius XI bears the name it does. Its recorded history starts with the last queen of Italy discovering, in the early years of last century, seven fragments of a signed and dated 16th century carpet and ordering some weavers to reconstruct the whole thing; it continues with someone buying a fragment of a carpet in a Christie's auction in the 1980's and discovering that it represented a previously unknown piece of the border of the same carpet, upon which it has now been sewn on. The fragment's pattern is more detailed and more precise and its colors still more vivid than the 20th century Italian restoration.